 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
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...3. 10 I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, 1. 7 Who loves, ravea — 'tis youth's frenzy — but the cure Is bitt COWPER— The Task. Bk. VI. L. 560. 11 She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all,... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 840 pages
...Cowper : " ' I would not enter on my list of friends, Tho' graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.' 'Now God Almighty planted this thing, and you have killed it without any adequate object. It would... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1923 - 492 pages
...measure : I would not enter in my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine cense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. But it has been left for the moderns, for Mr. Edward Blakenay, Francis Brett Young, Harold Monro and... | |
 | Kittochtinny Historical Society, Chambersburg, Pa - Franklin County (Pa.) - 1923 - 1860 pages
...Cowper: 'I would not enter on mv list of friends Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet •wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." VI. If you have made your "catch", why not go home from this lonely soot? Go home! Oh! no. The true... | |
 | Frederick William Fitzsimons - Birds - 1923 - 324 pages
...— " 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." The beautiful white egret was nearly exterminated in Egypt by the plume trade. The Egyptian ZooNest... | |
 | Samuel Thurber - Abstracting - 1924 - 172 pages
..."Endymion" I WOULD not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, 'and let the reptile... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Clarke - Animal welfare - 1927 - 474 pages
...life. " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm," declares Cowper. And Burns, with a sob in his voice, cries in The Wounded Hare: " Inhuman man! curse... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 422 pages
...his day: 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. The grounds for the emotion and for the resultant action here are insufficient; the needless killing... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Education - 1914 - 364 pages
...cost. 1 would not enter in my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — Cowper. Choose an author as you choose a friend. — Earl of Roscommon. Brevity is the soul of... | |
 | 1917 - 598 pages
...Parker. I would not enter on my list of friends, though polished with good manners and fine sense, yet wanting sensibility — the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm or in a verdant step may crush the snail at evening crawling :n the public path. But he who hath humanity... | |
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