 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
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 páginas
...lightful 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 of envy dies within me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 páginas
...example of this style is furnished in the conclusion of his essay on the tombs in Westminster Abbey: " 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,... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 páginas
...monuments are in bad taste; a sailor should not be represented as a beau. He closes with these words: " 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,... | |
 | Carl Holliday - 1919 - 168 páginas
...happy disposition ; he may be liked by his schoolmates; but the teachers report him as being lazy. When I look upon the tombs of the great every emotion of envy dies in me. At the doorway of his wigwam Sat the ancient Arrow-maker, In the land of the Dacotahs, Making arrow... | |
 | Robert L. Preston - 1919 - 100 páginas
...this majestic sepulchre, I felt small sympathy with the feelings of Addison in Westminster Abbey — " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me." Rather did envy possess itself of every fibre of my being. No granite monolith, no carved... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 páginas
...altered her person for the worse. Tale of a Tub, sect. ix. JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-1719 WESTMINSTER ABBEY 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 páginas
...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...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,... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - 1921 - 582 páginas
...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...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,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 400 páginas
...INSTRUCTIVE "WHEN I look," (says Addiiou, the delightful moralist, after visiting Westminster Abbey). *' Upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in 'die ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautifnl, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1921 - 444 páginas
...those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion 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,... | |
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