 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...brute the way to safe 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 foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...brute the way to safe 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 foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...Inferior Animals 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 foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
 | British preacher - 1832 - 342 pages
...of others. Cowper says — " 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." And this tenderness of feeling was somewhat characteristic of our departed friend, Mr. Greenfield:... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...species, or towards any part of the Creator's works, are evinced by the following striking lines. " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...species, or towards any part of the Creator's works, are evinced by the following striking lines: — * I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...species, or towards any part of the Creator's works, are evinced by the following striking lines. "I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the maii • Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertant step may crush the snail That crawls... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...species, or towards any pan of the Creator's works, are evinced by the following striking lines— "I would not enter on my list of friends. Though graced with polished manners and fine souse, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...brute the way to safe 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 foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
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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. 
