| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...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...compassion ; when I see the tombs of the parents, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow ; when I see kings lying by... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...one«. 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...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 468 pages
...can be too often reprinted : " When I look upon the tombs of the great (says this exquisite writer), every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the...tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 476 pages
...look upon the tombs of the great (says this exquisite writer), every emotion of envy dies in ttle ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate...tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...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...; 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 pages
...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...; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every • If he had said, " To pass a judgment on," the double genitive ca§e had been avoided. inordidate... | |
| Amelia Opie - 1812 - 384 pages
...will find a resting-place and an oblivion. " When I look upon the tombs of the great," says Addison, " every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the...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 must quickly follow."... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...delightful ones. By this means, I can improve myself with 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 epitaph of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...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...tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we mnst quickly follow.... | |
| John Corry, John Evans - Bristol - 1816 - 490 pages
...erection.* " The upper compartment of the monument represents a parent kneeling at the tomb of his son. * " When I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion : when I see the tomb of the parent* themseltes, I consider the vanity of griering for those whom we must quickly follow."... | |
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