...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...

...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...

...jealous, confirmation strong, As proof» 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.' So far,...

...absence of a high sensory system. When our great poet said that — " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal 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...

...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....

...gently, and flourishing it in the air, in time to the words — ' the poor beetle that you tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ' " I don't know that I quite believe that, though," said Mr. Somerset, in a low voice to himself,...

...philosophy, as it has become a standing axiom in poetry, that — " the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal 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,...

...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 lore always looks " like Patience on a monument " Smiling at Grief.", So...

...imposition of this law of warfare. Shakspeare said that — " The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies :" and an able Naturalist inquires, if this celebrated passage is as true in philosophy as it has become...

...spite of his early failure in quoting Shakspeare, exclaimed — " The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." * He might have recollected that the Queen was substantially charged with high treason, and that in...