 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pàgines
...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. ClaiuL Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness? If... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pàgines
...destruction of life would be fearful to contemplate, if there is truth in the quotation so often made, that " the poor beetle that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance finds a pang as great as when a giant dies." It may be objected to what I have advanced, that where there are nerves, there must be a sense of pain... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - 1845 - 456 pàgines
...presence of actual suffering, whether in man or brute. I cannot agree with Shakspere who says,— " The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies;" * because we know that the inferior development of its nervous system, renders it not so acutely sensible... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pàgines
...dismiss this play. III. 1. ISABELLA. Darest 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. It is the singular fate of these words to be for ever quoted as containing a sentiment which is really... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 148 pàgines
...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.65 80 CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flow'ry tenderness?... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 pàgines
...about her argument for the insignificance of death: "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 die." In short, death is death — so what's the big problem ? The audience may wince at Isabella's... | |
 | Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - 2002 - 180 pàgines
...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 fetch From flow'ry tenderness? If... | |
 | Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler - 1998 - 370 pàgines
...more respect Than a perpetual honour. Darest 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 fetch From flowery tenderness? If... | |
 | David Spooner - 2002 - 182 pàgines
...on a characteristic universal sympathy: Dar'stthoudie? The sense of death is most in apprehensio And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Or he weaves the insect into a metaphor for the whole art of statehood in Troilus and Cressida: When... | |
 | Timothy Morton - 2000 - 304 pàgines
...claws of a vulture. Essay on regimen, p. 70. Our immortal Shakspeare was of the same opinion: "And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dyes." Measure for Measure. superior hapyness which he has communicateed to reasonable beings, and... | |
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And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
