 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
 | Herb Galewitz - Literary Collections - 1999 - 68 pages
...sweet. I would not enter on 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. What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. FRANK CRANE Good... | |
 | Jean E. Friedman, Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein - History - 2001 - 314 pages
...line 560: 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. Cowper continues to argue that it is justifiable to kill venemous creatures that have intruded into... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...animals: I would not enter on my list of friends (Tho' grac'd 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, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | Emily Auerbach - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 364 pages
...novel? 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. 22 Willoughby definitely is "graced with polish'd manners and fine sense," yet even he admits that... | |
 | Kekionga Press - True Crime - 2005 - 82 pages
...public. "I 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...inadvertent step may crush the snail that crawls at evening in the public path, but he that has humanity, forwarn'd, will tread aside and let the reptile... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 pages
...'sensibility': I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd 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. (VI, 559-64) Yet this promulgatory discourse of sympathy and edict is not... | |
 | Robert Burns Shaw - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 321 pages
...animals: I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd 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... | |
 | 124 pages
...Friend 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 - William Cowper (1731-1800) Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young,... | |
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