 | George Oliver - Wolverhampton (England) - 1836 - 226 pages
...-cujus desiderio nee pudor est nee modus. " When I look upon the tombs of the great," says Addison, " every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the...desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents on a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of parents themselves, I consider... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When s an angel, and mix with the skies! Those poets who...And Beaumonts and Bens 6 be his Kellys above. Here tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 576 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When n Bliss [140 when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; [140 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 the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...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...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;... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Art - 1918 - 428 pages
...mind as they pass from chapel to chapel of this wonderful choir, and which I therefore quote. "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...in me: when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, HENRY'S VIFS CHAPEL 285 every inordinate desire goes out : when I meet with the grief of parents upon... | |
 | Norman Foerster, John Marcellus Steadman - English language - 1919 - 136 pages
...forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts — namely, to live. (Stevenson.) 13. 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;... | |
 | Carl Holliday - English language - 1919 - 168 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
