| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infect human life. " I here fetched a deep sigh ; alas, said I,...compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable aprospect. Look no more, said he, on mau in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Lore, with the like cares and payions that infest human lile.' •' I here fetched a deep sigh. ' Alas,' said I, ' man was made in vain '. bow is he given away to nv.fcery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in drath !' The... | |
| Salem Town - Readers - 1859 - 496 pages
...mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death!" The Gonius, being moved with compassion toward me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look...on man, in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist, into which the tide bears the several... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
..."are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." I here fetched a deep sigh. "Alas!" said I,...in death !" The Genius, being moved with compassion toward me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. "Look no more," said he, " on man in the first... | |
| Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1860 - 372 pages
..."are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." I here fetched a deep sigh. "Alas!" said I,...in death!" The Genius, being moved with compassion toward me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. "Look no more," said he, " on man in the first... | |
| English language - 1900 - 570 pages
...vain ; how is he given away to misery and mortality, tortured in life, and swallowed up in death I ' " The genius, being moved with compassion towards me,...'on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1900 - 538 pages
...been thus forced upon them. . . . " I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain f How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death t The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 456 pages
...are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infect human life. " I here fetched a deep sigh; alas, said I,...on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several... | |
| Literature - 1901 - 654 pages
...are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infect human life. '; I here fetched a deep sigh ; alas, said I,...and swallowed up in death ! The genius, being moved witli compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, ou man... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.' " I here fetched a deep sigh. ' Alas,' said...on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several... | |
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