 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
 | James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 194 pages
...are pure. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 502 pages
...of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine Yet wanting sensibility) the man, [sense, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening m the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewam'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yel wantuur sensihilily.) the man A\ ho needlessly sets foot upon a worm, An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path .' But he that hath Immunity, forewarn'd, 'VN nl tread aside and let the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets font upon a worm. 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... | |
 | Edward Sutleffe - 1824 - 638 pages
...— " 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." — COWPER. CAUTION NECESSARY IN THE USB OF CALOMEL. Dr. informed me, a few years ago, that his friend... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Readers (Elementary) - 1825 - 176 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...forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. For they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...revenge. 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, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...censured. 1 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...I would not enter on my list of friends, 560 (Though ffrac.'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 pv'ning in the publick path ; 565 But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside. and let the... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...lines— " I wpuld not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening m the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
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