| Elizabeth Helme - 1825 - 314 pages
...in this same spot. * When I look back,' said he, ' on the tombs of the great, every emotion dies in me : when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out : when I meet 1 with the grief of parents on a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion : when I see the tomb... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with... | |
| James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...appropriate. " When I look upon tho tombs of the great," says he, " every emotion of envy dies in roe ; 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 tomb... | |
| 1827 - 316 pages
...effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can. Lacon. 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... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...obedience to him, and of our fitness to be made members of his kingdom. Dr. Samuel Clarke's Sermons. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when 1 read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with... | |
| William Watson (F.A.S.) - 1827 - 796 pages
...be deciphered. A quotation from Addison may serve as a proper conclusion of this article : " 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... | |
| Thomas Faulkner - 1829 - 444 pages
...I look," says the delightful moralist, " 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 tomb... | |
| Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...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 of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with... | |
| William Henney - 1830 - 68 pages
...the Editor trusts his Readers will be pleased at their introduction in this Advertisement. " 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... | |
| Manuscript memorials - 1831 - 238 pages
...Westminster Abbey:— " When I look," says he, " 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 the tombs... | |
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