 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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 724 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,... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 428 páginas
...is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. "St. Matthew, 6: 9-13." THE BIBLE. 3. 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,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 263 páginas
...Nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. 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... | |
 | Alma Blount - 1914 - 331 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 tomb-stone,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 páginas
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. act as an angel, and mix with the skies! Those poets...owe their best fame to his Shall still be his fla beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 páginas
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. anklyn Bliss" Franklyn Bliss Snyder( beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; [140 when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 páginas
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. 45 beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone,... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 471 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
...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 - 597 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,... | |
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