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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... "
Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery - Page 339
by William Cowper - 1826
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 268 pages
...Cruelty to brutes censured. &•** I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sen:se^ Yet wanting sensibility,)...the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path j But he that has humanity, forewarn'd. Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends, 560 (Though ffrac.'d with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility.)...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at pv'ning in the publick path ; 565 But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside. and let the...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...fine senspi Yet wanting sensibility,) the man "Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertant step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, "Will tread aside and let the reptile live, a The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 316 pages
...WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with^pofish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wantmg sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon...worm. , . , An inadvertent step may crush the snail, , . , i That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread...
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Edwin; Or, The Motherless Boy: Interspersed with Pieces of Original ..., Part 72

Bourne Hall Draper - 1827 - 270 pages
...I think of Cowper's lines : ' I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the...evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.' " "He will," said Mr. Howard; "but yet we...
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Systematic morality, or, A treatise on the theory and practice of ..., Volume 1

William Jevons - 1827 - 424 pages
...says an amiable poet, \ * v . " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners, and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,)...evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will step aside, and let the reptile live.* The same humanity which thus spares the reptile,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...brutes censured. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends', (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fise sense, Yet wanting sensibility',) the man Who needlessly...crush the snail', That crawls at evening in the public patfr ; But he that has humanity', forewarn'd', Will tread aside', and let the reptile livc*. 2 The...
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Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most ...

1827 - 294 pages
...storm. His hour was come. ***** I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac.d with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path j But he that has humanity, forewarn 'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 286 pages
...*VCruelty to brutes censured. 1. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with pohsh'd manners and fine sense) Yet wanting sensibility,)...inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evenirg in the publick path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile...
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The poetical ladder; or A selection of poetry ... to suit the capacities of ...

Poetical ladder - 1827 - 94 pages
...me all. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish 'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,)...needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step tray crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd,...
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