 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...Godfrey Kneller— in defenee of Portrait-painting. MCLXX. The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal...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
...Godfrey Kneller— in defenee of Portrait-painting. •MCLXX. The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal...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... | |
 | William Withering - Botany - 1830 - 494 pages
...being at least problematical, may deserve some consideration. Whether it be true that " tJ. V..HI fhe poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies ;" or a somewhat less degree of anguish ; the vague assumption that the perceptions of the lower animals... | |
 | Edward W. Brayley - Physical sciences - 1831 - 146 pages
...Although we may be certain that Shakspeare mistook the appearance for the reality, when he said, that "The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies," and that the mere fact of its natural exposure to such a death would not otherwise be reconcilable... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...the Creator given feeling and a sense of pain, that truly in the words of the bard it may be said, " The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." THE FAMILY MONITOR. No. IX. SEPTEMBER, 1831. VOL. I. FEASTS AND FASTS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND EXPLAINED.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 426 pages
...more respect Than a perpetual honor. Darest thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Preparation. ! Extent. Clau. Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...in nothing good, But graciously to know I am no hetter. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon. In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great, As when a giant dies ! "Pis not impossible But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground May seem as shy, as grave, as just,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; 90 ACT III. 91 Claud. Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness?... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...antennae, or otherwise injure him; for although it be not quite true, yet it is useful to believe, that, The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Now put him beneath a glass, and observe him narrowly, while we proceed to describe his scientific... | |
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And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
