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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... "
Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ... - Page 109
by William Scott - 1789 - 398 lehte
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The Grammar of Present Day English

Carl Holliday - 1919 - 168 lehte
...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...
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Southern Miscellanies, 2–3. köide

Robert L. Preston - 1919 - 100 lehte
...this 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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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 lehte
...altered her person for the worse. Tale of a Tub, sect. ix. JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-1719 WESTMINSTER ABBEY WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...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;...
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Essays, English and American

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 lehte
...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...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;...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 lehte
...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 the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider...
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A Study of the Types of Literature

Mabel Irene Rich - 1921 - 582 lehte
...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...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;...
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Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English Prose

Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1921 - 444 lehte
...those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion 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;...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., 5. köide

Robert Kemp Philp - 400 lehte
...INSTRUCTIVE "WHEN I look," (says Addiiou, the delightful moralist, after visiting Westminster Abbey). *' Upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in 'die ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautifnl, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 396 lehte
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve my self with those Objects, which others consider with Terror. When I look upon the Tombs of the Great, every Emotion...read the Epitaphs of the Beautiful, every inordinate Desire goes out; when I meet with the Grief of Parents upon a Tomb-stone, my Heart melts with Compassion...
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A Primer of Literary Criticism

Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - 1924 - 148 lehte
...to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to manage, to multiply, and defend, his corruptions. 44. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...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...
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