 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 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; [140 when I meet... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I an angel, and mix with the skies! Those poets who owe their in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pages
...are in bad taste; a sailor should not be represented as a beau. He closes with these words: " 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...this style is furnished in the conclusion of his essay on the tombs in Westminster Abbey: " 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... | |
 | Norman Foerster, John Marcellus Steadman - 1919 - 136 pages
...parts—namely, to live. (Stevenson.) 13. 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 the tomb... | |
 | Robert L. Preston - 1919 - 100 pages
...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 and columned... | |
 | Carl Holliday - 1919 - 168 pages
...disposition ; he may be liked by his schoolmates; but the teachers report him as being lazy. When I look upon the tombs of the great every emotion of envy dies in me. At the doorway of his wigwam Sat the ancient Arrow-maker, In the land of the Dacotahs, Making... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 pages
...1672-1719 WESTMINSTER ABBEY 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 the tomb... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 pages
...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 of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, 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 within 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... 
