 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 - 1869 - 306 pages
...revenge. 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...tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermir . loathsome to the sight. And charg'd perhaps with venom, that intrudes. A visitor unwelcome,... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...CENSURED. 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...upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, ThaJ crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd Will tread aside,... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends ("Though graced with polished manners uud 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... | |
 | Richard Wiggins - Spellers - 1821 - 156 pages
...things have an equal right to live. An 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 live. Revenge. OF all the passions which invade the human breast, revenge is the most direful. How much soever... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...with polish 'd manners and fine sense, Vet wanting sensibility,) the man "Who needlessly sets loot upon a worm. . An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at ev'ning in the public pathj But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, "Will tread aside, and let the replile live. The creeping... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 318 pages
...censured.' 1. 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, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...(Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlesly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, ' That crawls at evening in ehe public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine seuso, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets...inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at ev'ning iu the public patn ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...censured. 1 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, forevvarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...race. 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... | |
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