 Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect 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...  Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 55by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 538 pages
...Isab. (L.) O, I do fear thee, Claudio ; arid I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual...apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon. In corporeal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Claud. Why give you me this shame... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 506 pages
...Isab. (L.) O, I do fear thee, Claudio ; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual...apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporeal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Claud. Why give you me this shame... | |
 | J. Coad - Fishing - 1826 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Gift books - 1826 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | John Taylor - 1827 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1827 - 808 pages
...themselves cowards, who, when called to the test, may perhaps prove heroes; for The sense of death ¡s n N feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. A profound sentence, which has been strangely perverted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 pages
...point. Isah. O,I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life should'st entertam, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual...sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor heetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Cland.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...the living, and they make me live.—Sir Godfrey Kneller— in defenee of Portrait-painting. MCLXX. The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Shatepeare. MCLXXI. To resist temptation once is not a sufficient proof of . honesty. If a servant,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...living, and they make me live.— *> Godfrey Kneller— in defenee of Portrait-painting. •MCLXX. The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Shdktpeare. MCLXXI. To resist temptation-once is not a sufficient proof of honesty. If a servant, indeed,... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...meanest insect of life, cannot be considered as having any just claim either to wisdom or benevolence : " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." It is a subject of deep lamentation that the people of this counf try are so frequently guilty of inhumanity... | |
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