 When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see...  The British Prose Writers - Página 261821Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Baillie - 1801 - 612 páginas
...ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objefts which others confider with terror. — When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every immoderate defire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-done,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objecls, which others confider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate tie lire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb done,... | |
 | 1803
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone,... | |
 | T Nixon - 1806
...of death. Solomon the wisest died, Absalom the beauty of /srae/died, and Sampson the strongest died. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone,... | |
 | Collection - 1806
...real value, since Epictetus, the beggar, the cripple, and the slave, was the favourite of heaven. " WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombstone,... | |
 | 1806
...real value, since Epictetus, the beggar, the cripple, and the slave, was the favourite of heaven. " WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out j when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombstone,... | |
 | George Horne - 1808 - 295 páginas
...one of my predecessors, on a survey of the tombs in Westminster Abbey. They are so just, beautiful, and affecting, that my reader, I am sure, will esteem...envy dies in me; when I read " the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate " desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of " parents upon a tomb-stone,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808
...gorgeous language which we find in the popular authors of more modern times : " When I look," says he, "upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; whet: I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb stone,... | |
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