 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...  Summer flowers, from the garden of wisdom - Pàgina 100per Charles Feist - 1833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1806 - 284 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Horne - 1808 - 320 pàgines
...to me for bringing them again into his remembrance, by closing this paper with a citation of them: " When I look upon the tombs" of the great, " every...beautiful, every inordinate " desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of " parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with " compassion; when I see the tomb... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pàgines
...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...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out } when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1808 - 306 pàgines
...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 inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombReasonable, however, as these reflections are, I would call you... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pàgines
...delightful 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...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 tomb of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 pàgines
...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...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 tombs of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pàgines
...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...; 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 pàgines
...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... | |
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