 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1838 - 1064 pàgines
...to be hunted to its end, and care not whether the snake be scotched or killed outright; — but — The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang ns great As when a giant dies ; and an intensely selfish man is not likely to survey the wreck of his... | |
 | David Mushet - 1839 - 350 pàgines
...; but this man will take some care and pains to avoid it. He will remember those humane lines — " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." " Instead of crushing these weak and defenceless children of nature under his feet, he will not be... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1892 - 406 pàgines
...and very much which tends to show that they do not. Probably the great poet who tells us that — " the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." is as incorrect as poets usually are when they venture upon statements relating to natural history.... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - 1888 - 776 pàgines
...passage is found in Measure for Measure, Act III., sc. 1. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is moat in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Here, of course, the intention is not to give an increased... | |
 | Regina Barreca - 1994 - 204 pàgines
...air, 'Are, to the jealous, 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 young woman in love always looks — 'like Patience on a monument 'Smiling at Grief.' (4)... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 pàgines
...issue with Claudio, and there is a grim comedy about her argument for the insignificance of death: "The sense of death is most in apprehension. / And...beetle that we tread upon. / In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant die." In short, death is death — so what's the big problem... | |
 | Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - 2002 - 180 pàgines
...shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the...poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution... | |
 | David Selwyn - 1998 - 384 pàgines
...air, Are, to the jealous, 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 young woman in love always looks — 'like Patience on a monument 'Smiling at Grief.'46... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 pàgines
...shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufference finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you... | |
 | Iris Murdoch - 2001 - 326 pàgines
...animals suffer as we do?' 'Who can say?' said Peter. 'But for myself I believe with Shakespeare that "the poor beetle that we tread upon in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies".' 'Why can't the animals all be good to each other and live at peace?' said Dora, twirling the parasol.... | |
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Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance... 
