 | 1872 - 602 pagina’s
...kettle whispering its faint undersong"; but when reading I find their chirp peculiarly irritating and distracting, more especially since they managed to...undoubted fact. I hold that, even in' destroying vermin, wo are bound to put them to as painless a death as possible, and I fear that scalding mater must inflict... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pagina’s
...kettle whispering its faint undersong"; but when reading I find their chirp peculiarly irritating and distracting, more especially since they managed to...we tread upon in corporal sufferance feels a pang us great as when a giant dies," but that they feel to a certain extent is, I should imagine, an undoubted... | |
 | 1872 - 622 pagina’s
...volley in his ear' ought to have been thought of — to make an Irish bull — at first, surely. If ' the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies,' the sufferings of this elephant must have equalled in intensity ' an army of giants.' But, as we said... | |
 | Daniel Evans - 1872 - 494 pagina’s
...was, a wrendy ei gwyn ? O mynni 'n hael gael ymgeledd — gan Naf, A gwiw nawdd er trosedd, 1 " And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, " In corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great, " As when a giant dies." SHAKESPEARE. Egora ddor trugaredd At fil gwan it' fal y gwedd. Gwêl loesau y gwael asyn, — a'i benyd,... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pagina’s
...despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. 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. How far this little candle throws its beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -Love all,... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1877 - 432 pagina’s
...Stanwell, Middlesex. It is all very pretty, but it is not true, that • ' c " The poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang As great as when a giant dies." The lower the animal organization the less sensibility to pain. What may be the mental sensations of... | |
 | Church congress - 1879 - 614 pagina’s
...prevent its deliberate infliction by the hand of man.) It may be poetically beautiful to say — " The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies," but it is absurdly untrue : and the residuum of real suffering is just as much a discipline of the creature... | |
 | James Hinton - 1880 - 570 pagina’s
...animals, on different races of the human family, and on different individuals. Shakspoare says — • " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." Modern discovery entitles us to offer an opinion on the truth of this poetic axiom. Pain, " nature's... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pagina’s
...on my head. s. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. Dar'stthou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And were so: For what is in this world, but grief and...woe? q. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 5. You take /. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 1. Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come, u. Julius... | |
 | John William Martin - 1882 - 206 pagina’s
...read two or three lines which ought to be set down as a complete untruth : — " The poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang As great as when a giant dies." That is a tale that won't wash with me ; when a fish is hooked, and is bolting about, and struggling... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
