 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 páginas
...Wolfe. KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. Exod. xx. 10. Deut. xxii. 6, 7; xxv. 4. Prov. xii. 10. Matt. xii. 11, 12. 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: An inadvertent step may crush... | |
 | 1876 - 516 páginas
...creatures should be treated with tenderness and care, and most cordially do we say, with Cowper — "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. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 páginas
...beautiful lines of Cowper, on cruelty to animals. William hung down his head, and mumbled out — " 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. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
 | Jane Loudon - 1844 - 258 páginas
...weeds ; — do you not remember what Cowper, who was pre-eminently the poet of Nature, says: — ' 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.' Yet I would not wish you to... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own. 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. 1 These lines, as a specimen... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...against Byron. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CONDEMNED— THEIR GOOD AND USEFUL PROPERTIES APPRECIATED. CoWPER. 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. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 páginas
...Kindly, perhaps, sometimes afflicts us here, To guide our views to a sublirner sphere. — Jenyns. 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. — Cowper. The seas shall waste,... | |
 | 1848 - 342 páginas
...itself to the meanest of the brute creation. This is expressed in his well-known lines — AN ESSAY. " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manners and fine Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." Such sentiments speak volumes.... | |
 | 1854 - 672 páginas
...sports, and all cruelty of every kind. It was he -who said, with as much kindness as earnestness — '' 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. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 páginas
...solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. 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. An unadvertent step may crush... | |
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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. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he... 
