| Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 páginas
...gay and 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,...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate tie lire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb done, my heart melts with comp^ifion;... | |
| John Baillie - 1801 - 642 páginas
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objefts which others confider with terror. — When I look upon the tombs of the...; 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, my heart melts... | |
| 1806 - 284 páginas
...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...of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out j when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I... | |
| John Bew - 1807 - 408 páginas
...dead; nor can any thing be more just and beautiful than Mr. Addison's reflections on this subject: "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet will) the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I consider the... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 páginas
...which we find in the popular authors of more modern times : •' When I look," says he, "upon the tomba of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when...out } when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 páginas
...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...of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; whet: I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1808 - 306 páginas
...look upon the tombs of the great, (says the incomparable Addison,) every emotion of envy dies within me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every...out; when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombReasonable, however, as these reflections are, I would call you from them awhile, in order to lead... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 páginas
...obligation to me for bringing them again into his remembrance, by closing this paper with a citation. " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tombs of the parents, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow ; when... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 páginas
...nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects,...; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every * If he had said, " To pass a judgment on," the double genitive caie had been avoided. KSS, I ^ inordidate... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 páginas
...nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When 1 look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of... | |
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