 | James Alexander Roy - Poets, English - 1914 - 196 pages
...while his instinctive sympathy for the lower creation appealed to humanitarians : I would not enter in my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Cowper's poetry pulsated with human emotion ; it throbbed with the charm of a sympathetic personality,... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - English literature - 1914 - 514 pages
...more. — Bk. VI, 96-97. And — I would not enter on my list of friends (Tho' graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — Bk. VI, 560-563. Cowper's Literary Position. — The author of the Olney Hymns ranks among... | |
 | Henry Olerich - Utopias - 1915 - 278 pages
...hand and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakespeare's strain. ' ' — Ralph Waldo Emerson. ''1 would not enter on my list of friends, Though...sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." — William Cowper. ''The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill... | |
 | Henry Olerich - Utopias - 1915 - 266 pages
...and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakespeare's strain. ' ' — Ralph Waldo Emerson. ''I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." — William Cowpor. "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1915 - 932 pages
...of the poor boy, after the injuries were inflicted! What says that good Christian poet, Cowper : "I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." And again he uses these appropriate words : "The spring time of our years Is soon dishonored... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - Elocution - 1915 - 328 pages
...taking no farewell, Hither, to take my last farewell of you. — TENNYSON : Lancelot and Elaine. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — WILLIAM COWPER: Humanity. The smoke of censers, where heaped ambergris A.nd myrrh and sandal-wood... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - Elocution - 1915 - 328 pages
...me taking no farewell, Hither, to take my last farewell of you. — TENNYSON: Lancelot and Elaine. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — WILLIAM COWPER: Humanity. The smoke of censers, where heaped ambergris And myrrh and sandal-wood... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...English poet. The following lines from his The Task, Book VI, indicate what Lowell had in mind : " I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) tlie man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." 26. his parishioners. White was minister as well as... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. . . . 1 would not enter on my list of friends 560 worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; 565 But he... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. . . . I would not enter on my list of friends 560 (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlissly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in... | |
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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. 
