 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Fiction - 1922 - 526 pages
...beside the sea; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle MERCY TO ANIMALS By WILLIAM COWPER 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... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 840 pages
...view.' He then quoted the following lines from Co"wper : '"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 foot upon a worm.' 'Now God Almighty planted this thing, and you have killed it without any adequate object. It... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...CORNEILLE — Cinna. V. 3. 10 I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd Harold. Canto II. St. 81. 7 Who loves, ravea — 'tis youth's frenzy — but the cure I worm. COWPER— The Task. Bk. VI. L. 560. 11 She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns... | |
 | Frederick William Fitzsimons - Birds - 1923 - 324 pages
...perverted lower passions and other selfish desires. There is deep wisdom in what Cowper says : — " I would not enter on my list of friends — Though graced...sensibility — the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." The beautiful white egret was nearly exterminated in Egypt by the plume trade. The Egyptian... | |
 | Kittochtinny Historical Society, Chambersburg, Pa - Franklin County (Pa.) - 1923 - 1860 pages
...away into dullness and the agile little forms stiffen in death. With Cowper: 'I would not enter on mv list of friends Though graced with polished manners...sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." VI. If you have made your "catch", why not go home from this lonely soot? Go home! Oh! no. The... | |
 | Education - 1894 - 416 pages
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 | Samuel Thurber - Abstracting - 1924 - 172 pages
...brink. — JOHN KEATS, "Endymion" 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... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Clarke - Animal welfare - 1927 - 474 pages
...to the lowest forms of life. " 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," declares Cowper. And Burns, with a sob in his voice, cries in The Wounded Hare: " Inhuman man!... | |
 | Fernando Palazzi, Silvio Spaventa Filippi - Quotations - 1927 - 994 pages
...should not. To know thè vintage and thè quality of a wine one need not drink thè whole cask. 1480. I would not enter on my list of friends | (Though graced with polished manncrs and fine sense | Yet wanting sensibility) thè man | Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.... | |
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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. 
