 | James Floy - 1861 - 292 pagina’s
...Scripture alike, teach that in so doing we should inflict as little pain as possible. The poet says: The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.—SHAKSPEARE. This may possibly be an exaggeration, although we cannot prove that it is. Brutes... | |
 | 1861 - 1156 pagina’s
...reflection and inquiry, and we thought our benevolence was rather improved, when we were forcibly reminded e in Zion, on which the church was to be built. As.when л giant die»." This wonderful instrument not only nidi to our knowledge, but it increases... | |
 | 1863 - 588 pagina’s
...princes of the earth or shaped in the plodding mould of the simple tillers of the soil — just as " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ! " Edith Lester was no exception ; and, although her path for the intervening years had been trodden... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pagina’s
...heaven, As make the angels weep. — Id. Isabella. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. — Act 3, Sc. 1. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Beatrice. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a... | |
 | Thomas Smith (head master of the Classical sch, Peterborough) - 1864 - 316 pagina’s
...clashing with his principles, which had ripened from an idea conveyed in those words of Shakspeare : — " The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a. giant dies." Mary ever felt perfect rapture to hear her brother read the " Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard," in the... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - 1866 - 290 pagina’s
...their part in the problem of Nature. Size is nothing with the Creator ; form is nothing. Perchance " the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." History indicates mysterious laws in the progress of the typical stocks of the human families ; and... | |
 | 1868 - 978 pagina’s
...just because we are all human, Zeke Hickory bole's love was like the love of Pericles, than it is true that the poor beetle that we tread upon in corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies. One evening Zeke was found to have chalked on his bed's head this simple rhyme : — " My love, she... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 280 pagina’s
...quoted in support of this idea ; and we are often told with great pathos, that The poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. Had Shakspeare written these lines in the sense in which they are usually quoted, he would have appeared... | |
 | 616 pagina’s
...naturalists. It was but lately that the discovery was made of the fallacy of the beautiful sentiment— " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." Excellent as it is morally, we know it to be physically nonsense. But what would Shakspeare, could... | |
 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 1871 - 336 pagina’s
...know how to pay ; and who was, in his degree, as miserable as his chief; for is it not established that— " The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies " ? Young Vandeleur, with light silken hair, and innocent blue eyes, found his paragon the picture... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
