...race-horses. Nevertheless, he pretends to be a person of such sensibility, that he would not enter on his list of friends " the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." And are human vermin, then, such mere stocks and stones, that our amiable bard may trample upon them...

...readers may smile, and call it an affectation of sensibility. Yet with Cowper, ' I would not enter on my list of friends The man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." If the leading objects of field sports were to procure sustenance, I would not say a word. But the...

...cruel contrast to the benevolent countenance of the earl hanging near it. " I would not enter on my list of friends, The man who needlessly sets foot upon A worm." A call at the cottage of the young married sister of the family where I was stopping, gave an additional...

...killed three woodeocks Man is the only animal which makes a sport of death I would not enter on my list of friends, the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm Is your intended as pretty as her sisters? She is prettier than the eldest, but not so pretty as the...

...pleasing emotion with which one reads these lines of the poet Cowper, — " I would not enter on my list of friends The man who, needlessly, sets foot upon a worm." Or these lines by a still greater poet, — " The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the...

...man." Indeed, his censures extend beyond the human destroyer of Ufe. Cowper would not enter on his list of friends the man who " needlessly sets foot upon a worm ; " but Thomson, going further, denounces " the villain spider, cunning and fierce," sitting in his...

...unnecessary pain, and no man can say with more sincerity than the sportsman, " I would not count among my list of friends * * * * the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." The party seated around that bark table was composed of men of education, general intelligence and...

...ourselves ; more comforting is it therefore to have done enough for others. I would not enter on my list of friends the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — Cowper. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. — John Wesley. |5ottic Sections....

...and goodness of God," as Jones of If ay land says. And Co wper say s : — " I would not enter on my list of friends the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. " IMAGINATIVENESS. THE PLASTIC POWER OB FACCLTY OF CREATING IMAGES IN THE MIND, THE HOME OF FANCY....

...vice in them that were a virtue in us. A liar is nok likely to be believed. I would not enter on my list of friends the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 79. Analyse these simple sentences — godlike hero sat on his imperial throne. In a small chamber,...