| Elizabeth Helme - 1800 - 314 páginas
...made in this ** same spot. * When I look back,' said he, on the tombs of the great, every emo* tion dies in me : when I read the, ' epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordi*• nate desire goes out : when I meet with * the grief of parents on. a tomb-stone, my fr heart... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 páginas
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objecls, which others confider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great,...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate tie lire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb done, my heart melts with comp^ifion;... | |
| John Baillie - 1801 - 642 páginas
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objefts which others confider with terror. — When I look upon the tombs of the...; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every immoderate defire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-done, my heart melts... | |
| 1803 - 420 páginas
...what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myselfj with those objects which others consider with terror. ; When I look upon the tombs of the great,... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1804 - 450 páginas
...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 J meet with the grief of parents, upon a tomb-stone, " my heart melts with compassion ; when I see... | |
| 1806 - 284 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 páginas
...what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful...; 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 páginas
...what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful...those objects, which others consider with terror. When 1 look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of... | |
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