 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 psl.
...doth the fowl, — is yet a devil ; '•' A metaphor, from stripping trees of their Imrli. 16 ' And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.' This beautiful passage is in all our minds and memories, but it most frequently stands in quotation... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 538 psl.
...asking compassion for the other! " Dar'st thoirdie? The sense of death is wost in apprehension ; And the poor beetle^ that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giaut dies." For its power of thrilling the soul with supernatural terror, Cl audio's reflections on... | |
 | 1826 - 506 psl.
...The sense of death is most in 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 ? If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in my arms. Isab. (tc) There spake... | |
 | John Taylor - 1827 - 332 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 psl.
...perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The 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. ' Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness? If... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 psl.
...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,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 psl.
...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,... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 psl.
...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 - 1830 - 494 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 548 psl.
...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.... | |
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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. 
