 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - English literature - 1925 - 490 pages
...the moods of the writers. Thus we find Addison writing in a style that is both smooth and dignified: "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; . . . when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. t, as mighty to make, And creates the love to reward...for my own love's sake ! Delayed it may be for more desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion:... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1915 - 628 pages
...interieruiit i Melmoth quotes the reflections of Addison in Westminster Abbey (Spectator, No. 26) : • 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 inordinate desire goes out ; wlien I meet... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - Bar associations - 1915 - 292 pages
...merely to paraphrase it. Addison in his essay on Thoughts in Westminster Abbey, says substantially this: "When I look upon the tombs of the great every emotion of envy dies in me. When I read the epitaphs of those, some of whom died but yesterday, some of whom died hundreds of years ago, every ignoble ambition... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Adultery - 1923 - 506 pages
...with the short face, the genial Spectator : " 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... | |
 | Fredericus Theodorus Visser - English language - 2002 - 688 pages
...Sir, I read, and then I breakfast; I sometimes study, sometimes eat. \ 1711 Addison, Spect. no. 26, When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me. (1711 Steele, Spect. no. 24, //"you walk in the Park, one of them will certainly join with you, tho'... | |
 | 张秀国 - English language - 2005 - 288 pages
...put an end to mankind. (John 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 tombs of the parents themselves, I consider... | |
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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... 
