 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1828 - 598 pages
...to the bee, that poets, the worst entomologists in the world, have led us astray. Cowper says, ' I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.' By worm, we wonder if he included the grub-worm. Alas... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...brute the way to safe revenge, 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. An inadvertent step may crush the snail. That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But her... | |
 | Lucy Hake - Anecdotes - 1828 - 506 pages
...IV. —s»Hif*>ON SENSIBILITY. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Tho* grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot open a worm. THOUGH plausible excuses, with expressions of sorrow, are too frequently made to the unfortunate,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...enjoy." In another place I find him quoting with approbation the beautiful lines of Cowper, — " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced...sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. * ***"•».• The sum is this : — If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...enjoy." In another place I find him quoting with approbation the beautiful lines of C'owper, — " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced...sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly seta toot upon a worm. « * • The sum is this : — If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere,... | |
 | Theology - 1833 - 684 pages
...Task shows the delicacy and strength of his feelings, resulting from such an organization : — " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sots root upon a worm." And he observes in a letter to a friend, " I ain not naturally insensible ;... | |
 | Meteorology - 1829 - 906 pages
...regard to the bee, that poets, the worst entomologists in the world, have led us astray. Cowper says, "1 would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." By tcoriw, we wonder if he included the grub-worm.... | |
 | Natural history - 1829 - 526 pages
...enjoy." In another place I find him quoting with approbation the beautiful lines of Cowper,— " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manner* and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. •... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...inferior animals censured. 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. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
 | William Rhind - National history - 1830 - 376 pages
...of the human heart observes, " 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." Certainly all uncalled-for infliction of torture on animals is highly reprehensible, at the... | |
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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. 
