 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 tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see...  The Journal of Education for Upper Canada - Page 1681854Full view - About this book
 | William Upcott - 1818 - 734 pages
...so well, Few orators so tenderly can touch The feeling heart. What pathos in the dates!" YOUNG. *• When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...desire goes out. When I meet with the grief of parents on a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion : when I see the tombs of parents themselves, I consider... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...Bourchier, &c. Viewing such a variety of tombs, I was impressed with a passage from Addison : — " 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. When 392 FONT... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 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...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...delightful' ones. By this means I can improve' myself with objects which others' consider with terror'. When I look upon the tombs of the great', every emotion...tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion' ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves', I consider the vanity of grieving for those' whom we must quickly... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...delightful ones. By this means, 1 can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,! consider the, vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...means, 1 can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. When 1 look upon the torebs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; •when 1 meet with the grief of parent* upon a tombstone, niy heart melts with compassion ; when 1 see the... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...myself with objects which others consider with terror. — 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 inordinante desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts... | |
 | 1813 - 592 pages
...reflections. ' When looking upon the tomb of the great, every emotion of envy dies within us; when we read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when we meet with the grief of parents on a tomb stone, our hearts melt with compassion; when we see the... | |
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...Gay." We may learn much from the monuments in Westminster Abbey. Addison says, (Spectator, No. 26.) " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
 | 1821 - 324 pages
...me, for bringing them again into his remembrance, by closing this paper with a citation of them : " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beantiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone,... | |
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