 | Robert L. Preston - 1919 - 100 pages
...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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 272 pages
...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;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...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;... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1920 - 542 pages
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 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - American literature - 1921 - 582 pages
...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;... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - Ocean in literature, English - 1921 - 444 pages
...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;... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 400 pages
...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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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... 
