 | 1851 - 496 էջ
...tender susceptibilities of his own heart : " 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." The mind of Cowper " presents the most wonderful combinations of the grave and the gay, the social... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 էջ
...SECT. CXCV. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 1 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. 2 An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path'; But he that... | |
 | 1851 - 592 էջ
...the following striking lines. "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. A n inadvertant step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1852 - 412 էջ
...God." 4 CHAPTER IX. THE BOAT-SONG. — TRIALS. "I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm."— Task. " Play the fool on Sundays— If he the tinkling harpsichord regards As inoffensive, \vhat offence... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1852 - 324 էջ
...to small animals. He says : " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though grac'd with polished manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility, the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." Neither would I. Nor would I advise you to do so. Better have no friends, I had almost said, but God,... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - 1852 - 406 էջ
...to cruelty in their children. " 1 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 vorm.' This beautiful and truthful sentiment of the poet Cowper should be engraved on the walls of... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 էջ
...the evening. COTTON. HUMANITY. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility',...foot upon a worm\ An inadvertent step may crush the snaiK, That crawls at evening in the public path^; But he that has humanity', forewarned, Will tread... | |
 | James Kendall - 1853 - 202 էջ
...beloved dead author, Cowper : — " 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. An inadvertant step may crush the snail That crawls at erening in the public path ; But he that has humanity,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 էջ
...choice, And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends, 560 (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawl« at ev'ning in the publick path ; 565 But he that has humanity, fore warn'd, Will tread aside,... | |
 | 1845 - 392 էջ
...Cowper such lines as these : — " I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." THE MISSIONARY'S JOY. THESE is a verse in Psalm cxxvi. which contains a beautiful description of missionary... | |
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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. 
