 | Timothy Mather Cooley - 1837 - 370 pages
...of his indescribable loveliness and sympathy. " I would not enter on my list of friends, Tho' graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets loot upon a worm." III. QUICKNESS OF PERCEPTION. " When a new subject was presented, or an intricate... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 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. 941 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 562 CUPID — sue Love. Cupid is a casuist, A mystie, and a cabalist,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...Act iii. Sc. 1. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and flue sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm941 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 562 CUPID — see Love. Cupid is a casuist, A mystic, and a cabalist,... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - Readers - 1912 - 380 pages
...with day. — Sir Walter Scott. NEEDLESS PAIN I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread... | |
 | Will David Howe - Readers - 1912 - 318 pages
...new city, and it was called Rome after him. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread... | |
 | Pauline Frost Rafter - Readers - 1912 - 316 pages
...Blanche, I hope they are happy ! " ANDREW LANG. 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 COWPEE. There dwelt a miller hale and bold Beside the river Dee ; He worked and sang from morn... | |
 | Henry Meade Bland - Children's literature - 1912 - 122 pages
...hours, if he have lost no time.—Francis Bacon. 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. PROSE AND POETRY FOR CHILDREN 67 In the morning sow thy seed, in the evening withhold not thine hand;... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1913 - 132 pages
...The Task. In the latter we find the lines : ** 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." PAGE 46 "Annihilating all that's made," etc.; quoted from Tht Garden, by Andrew Marvell (1620-1678).... | |
 | James William Searson - English language - 1914 - 360 pages
...KIPLING: The Law of the Jungle. NEEDLESS PAIN I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread... | |
 | Alma Blount - American literature - 1914 - 406 pages
...contains some famous lines on kindness to animals: 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. — Refer to the date of White and explain the significance of the allusion to Burgoyne, and its relation... | |
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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. 
