| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...: Thou find'st, to be too busy, is some danger. DEATH. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 páginas
...more respected Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. RESOLUTION FROM A SENSE OF HONOUR. Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From... | |
| 1824 - 822 páginas
...the piano with thimbles."— A touch, by the way, quite Shakspearean ; as, where the bard says,— " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." No doubt: but quere — how great a pang does the poor beetle find, when a giant dies ? Let us return.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 páginas
...more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thon die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; N yon I Can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness 'III must die, I will encounter darkness as a... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 páginas
...falcon doth the fowl, — is yet a devil ; '•' A metaphor, from stripping trees of their Imrli. 16 ' And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.' This beautiful passage is in all our minds and memories, but it most frequently stands in quotation... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 páginas
...falcon doth the fowl, — is yet a devil ; 15 A metaphor, from stripping trees of their bark. 16 ' And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.' This beautiful passage is in all our minds and memories, but it most frequently stands in quotation... | |
| J. Coad - 1826 - 264 páginas
...fishing ; and some sentimental soul will perhaps quote, with good emphasis and sound discretion, " the poor beetle that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great as when a giant dies ;" but this is out-heroding Herod, and refining man out of the means of providing for his ordinary... | |
| 1826 - 480 páginas
...suppose, ma'am, seen a beetle ?" — " Surely, sir." — " And, ma'am, as the immortal Shakespeare says, ' The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies !' Now, madam, don't you think when this poor beetle feels this corporeal pang, he shews his feelings... | |
| George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 538 páginas
...while asking compassion for the other! " Dar'st thoirdie? The sense of death is wost in apprehension ; And the poor beetle^ that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giaut dies." For its power of thrilling the soul with supernatural terror, Cl audio's reflections on... | |
| John Taylor - 1827 - 332 páginas
...Nought was below his care, his zeal For e'en the beetle's * pang could feel, And kindred nature own. * " The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." MEASURE 1 OK MEASUHE. If Time, with slow but certain rage, In passing o'er the wond'rous page, Has... | |
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