 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity \...reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little ;ompetitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 pages
...fierceness, having learnt, though slow to learn, The manners and the arts of civil life. — Cowper. 2. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ;...disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the litcle competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. — Addison. 3. There is hardly a mistake which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see IcingM lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival...sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factious, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1865 - 476 pages
...grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them when 1 consider rival wits placed side by side or the holy...divided the world with their contests and disputes l reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions factions and debates of mankind.... | |
 | 1866 - 812 pages
...distracting circumstances and discoloured lights just relative perspective. " When I see," writes Addison, " kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider...men that divided the world with their contests and dis- . putes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and dehates... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Trent, River, Watershed (Staffordshire-North Lincolnshire, England) - 1866 - 388 pages
...is what I actually saw, one autumn evening, at Monte Tertanio, the year following the poet's death." world with their contests and disputes, I reflect...sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, fractions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday,... | |
 | Sir Henry Cole - 1867 - 154 pages
...upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, 1 consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we...sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factious, and debates of mankind. When I read the several elites of the tombs, of some that died yesterday,... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - Elocution - 1867 - 106 pages
...parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grief for those whom we must quickly follow. When I sec kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider...or the holy men that divided the -world with their contentions and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1867 - 106 pages
...quickly follow ; when he saw kings lyingby those who deposed them, when he considered rival wits laid side by side or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes he reflected with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions factions and debates of mankind.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 612 pages
...when I see the tomb of the parents themselves I consider the vanity of grieving for those we must so quickly follow ; when I see kings lying by those who...divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reuect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When... | |
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow : when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect... 
