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" The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. "
An Essay on the Life of the Right Reverend Theodore Dehon, D.D.: Late Bishop ... - Page 311
by Christopher Edwards Gadsden - 1833 - 341 pages
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...our virtues. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporal sufferance, feels a- pang as great As when a giant dies, How far the little candle throws Iiis beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Love all ,...
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Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With ..., Volume 2

Francis Douce - 1807 - 528 pages
...severing. Of the parallel passages already cited, this is not the least so, from Measure for measure ; " in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. Sc. 4. p. 98. [they rise to depart. Mr. Ridley's note is very judiciously introduced to get rid of...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...our virtues. ' The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great, As when a giant dies. How far the little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ' Love all,...
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Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805 ..., Volume 2

Sir Robert Ker Porter - 1809 - 500 pages
...poor hares; for, as I looked on their writhing limbs, I could not but think that this little animal in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies; and marvelling at the contradictory nature of man, I directed my course towards some of the public...
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The Lower World: A Poem, in Four Books, with Notes

Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - 1810 - 172 pages
...merciful ; for they shall obtain MERCY. St. Matthew, v. 7. " The poorest beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." Shaksytnre. Wnittlugham and Rowland, Printers, Coswell Street, London. ERRATA. Argument, Book I. line...
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Supplement to the Rural Sports

William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 568 pages
...of which, the First of our POETS inculcates, telling us, " That the poor Beetle which we tread upon, In corporal Sufferance feels a Pang as great, As when a GIANT dies,") he ought to know, that, even with every Cabbage he devours, the Lives of more Animals are destroyed,...
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The Boston Spectator: Devoted to Politicks and Belles-lettres, Volume 1

1814 - 258 pages
...REVEUR, JV'o. IV. "The sting of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." THE first of these positions is undoubtedly true — the latter, is a poetical flourish, cor.taining...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 22

1827 - 798 pages
...prove heroes; for The sense of death is most in apprehension— And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. A profound sentence, which has been strangely perverted into a commonplace precept of humanity to beetles...
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Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion, Volume 1

Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 pages
...confirmation strong, "As proofs of Holy Writ.'* That • " The poor beetle, which we tread upon, '• In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great " As when a giant dies." And that a voung woman in love •/ C7 always looks " like Patience on a monument " Smiling at Grief."...
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On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals: On the Primeval State of Man ...

Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pages
...size ? Are not the parts of a worm exquisitely formed? Most certainly " the worm, on which we tread, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." — Shakespere. Cruel delight ! from native beds to drag the wounded fools, and spoil their silvery...
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