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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... "
Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with ... - Page 43
by Noah Webster - 1835 - 252 pages
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 2

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1821 - 726 pages
...the realm. The poor man ought to be protected as well as the high ; for he could not forget that " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ! " But coming immediately to the point under consideration, no man could deny) that when a list of...
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The British Prose Writers...: Fitzosborne's letters

British prose literature - 1821 - 336 pages
...that great and little are merely relative terms. But the inimitable Shakspeare would teach us, that he poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. And this is not thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, but supported by the discoveries...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...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...beetle, that we tread upon, * In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Cland. Why give you me this shame ! Think you I can a resolution...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...shoutd'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st ihou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we trend upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. „ • Clavd. Why srive...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...were not cherished by our virtues. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the...a giant dies. How far the little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none ; be able...
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Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the ...

Benjamin Oakley - 1823 - 442 pages
...cat, the mouse. Is not the life of the mouse as dear to it as life is to the hare ? It feels as much : and " the poor beetle that we tread upon, in corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." " All our sufferings are but the way to dusty death!" — " Out, out, brief candle ! Life's but a poor...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...should'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? 6v | m 5 1 Y > finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Claud. Why give you me this shame ? Think von I can a resolution...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...should'st 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...beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Claud. Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Measure for ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 322 pages
...coofejsion, communion, and absolution. STEEVENS. ,..,.. Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the...beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Clau. Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution...
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On the Pleasure and Utility of Angling: A Paper Read to the Waltonian Club ...

William Andrew Mitchell - Fishing - 1824 - 40 pages
...was written. — Even the Lord Chancellor has treated us from the woolsack with the quotation : — " And the poor beetle that we tread upon, " In corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great " As when a giant dies." It is extraordinary that for ages the meaning of these words should have been totally misunderstood....
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