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" I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect.... "
The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index - Page 181
by Spectator The - 1811
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Readings from the Best Authors

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 pages
...arches.' ' These,' said the Genius, ' are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." " I here fetched...The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. ' Look no more,' said he, 'on man in the first stage of his...
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A system of elocution based upon grammatical analysis

William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...VOICE THAN ANT WOKD OR MEMBEE OF THE SENTENCE DOES IN THE ORDINARY GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION. Ex. — I here fetched a deep sigh. " Alas ! " said I, " man...The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man in the first stage of...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...arches." "These," said the genius, "are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." I here fetched...he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in Ufe, and swallowed up in death !" The geniut being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so...
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The advanced reader

Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...variety of objects which it presented; and as I I6oked, my heart was filled with a deep melancholy. "Alas," said I, "man' was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality !" The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look...
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Murby's Excelsior readers, ed. by F. Young

Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...infest Human Life." . I here fetched a deep sigh. " Alas I" said I, " man was made in vain I How is ho given away to misery and mortality, tortured in life...he, " on man in the first stage of his existence in setting out for eternity, but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 pages
...arches." " These," said the genius, " 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, "man was made in vain I how is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! " The...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. . . . ' I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was...vain ! How is he given away to misery and mortality I tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! — The genius, being moved with compassion towards...
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The national reading books, adapted to the government code ..., Volume 5

National reading books - 1871 - 232 pages
...arches.' 'These,' said the genius, ' are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the liko cares and passions that infest human life.' " I here fetched...genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid mo quit so uncomfortable a prospect. ' Look no more,' said he, ' on man, in the first stage of his...
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John Heywood's new code readers. Standard 1-3, 5, 6, Book 5

John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...arches." " These," said the genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." I here fetched...The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. "Look no more," said he, " on man in the first stage of his...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...arches." " These," said the genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest Human Life." I here fetched...The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. "Look no more," said he, ' ' on man in the first stage of...
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