...susceptible of pain. Is it really true in philosophy, as it has become a standing axiom in poetry, that — " The poor beetle, that we tread upon. In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ?" This is a question upon which modern discoveries in science entitle us to offer an opinion, and...

...death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come. THE sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. ODE indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When oar deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us There's...

...God's goodness. How false is the poet's idea so often quoted as a truth:— " The poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." This is a great exaggeration. The sensibility of lower animals to pain, is very slight in comparison...

...than that of a common man ; q,rd we eHould^remember, that " The poor beetle that we tread upon, \J In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." If a son or a brother had dethroned Louis, had imprisoned, had beheaded him (a thing that happens every...

...considering that great and little are merely relative terms. But the inimitable Shakespeare would teach us that the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. (Meas. f. M. Ill, 1.) And this is not thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, but supported...

...And we are for the dark. AC v. 2. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great, As when a giant dies. MM iii. 1. Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. R. II. ii. 1. O you mighty gods I This world...

...air. Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proof» of Holy Writ.' That 'The poor beetle, which nds wer * And that a young woman in love always looks • like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.' So far,...

...of life in the lower living form, and the absence of a high sensory system. When our great poet said that — " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ;" he stated what is not philosophically true. If the shock to the nervous system in mutilated insects...

...susceptible of pain. Is it really true in philosophy, as it has become a standing axiom in poetry, that — " the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies''? (1 162.) This is a question upon which modern discoveries in science entitle us to offer an opinion,...

...had almost wholly deprived its body of the viscera. The noted saying, that " the poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies," however calculated to extend the range of our sympathies, certainly contains more poetry than truth....