 And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.  Poems - Page 178by William Cowper - 1802Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...Who neeJlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent ftcp may crufh the fnail That crawls at evening in the public path •> But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the fight, And charg'd perhaps with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 pages
...fenfibility) the man Who needlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent ftep may crufh the fnail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the fight, And charg'd perhaps with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1795 - 410 pages
...fenfibifity) the man Who ncedlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent ftep may crufh the fnail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the fight, And charg'd perhaps with... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 218 pages
...Who needlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent ftep may crufh the fnail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let th; reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the figlit . And charged perhaps... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 394 pages
...fenfibility) the man Who needlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent ftep may crufh the fnail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the fight, And charg'd perhaps with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 364 pages
...fenfibility) the man Who needlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent ftep may crufli the fnail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he. that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the fight, And charg'd perhaps with... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...brute ! I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polisli'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets...ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forcwarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. FASHIONABLI FRIENDSHIP. AVlIEXCE comes it then,... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends 5(50 (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and line sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; 565 But he that has humanity, forewam'd. Will tread aside, and let the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 362 pages
...fenfibility) the man Who needlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent ftep may crufh the fnail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the fightr And cbarg'd perhaps with... | |
 | Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...fenfibility) the man , Who needlefsly fets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent flep may crufh the fnail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread afide, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathfome to the fight, And charg'd perhaps with... | |
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