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... The Spectator. ... - Page 1501789Full view - About this book
| General reader - 1827 - 246 lehte
...obedience to him, and of our fitness to be made members of his kingdom. Dr. Samuel Clarke's Sermons. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when 1 read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief... | |
| Thomas Faulkner - 1829 - 444 lehte
...the following piece of instructive eloquence : — " When I look," says the delightful moralist, " upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy...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... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 lehte
...delightful ones. By this means l can improve myself with objects which others consider with terrour. When 1 look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when 1 read the epitaph of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief... | |
| Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 lehte
...gay and 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,...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... | |
| William Henney - 1830 - 68 lehte
...subject, that the Editor trusts his Readers will be pleased at their introduction in this Advertisement. " 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... | |
| Manuscript memorials - 1831 - 238 lehte
...by a celebrated author, in a survey of the tombs in Westminster Abbey:— " When I look," says he, " upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy...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;... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 lehte
...and delightfur 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',...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'... | |
| 1832 - 406 lehte
...gay and 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,...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 332 lehte
...gay and 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,...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heartjnelts with compassion... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 lehte
...gay and 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,...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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