 | John Ackerson Erredge - 1862 - 404 страници
...silence, louder than divines can preach. A celebrated moralist thus expresses himself on Epitaphs : — When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tombs of parents themselves, I see the vanity of grieving for those whom they must quickly follow ;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 252 страници
...her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By these means I can improve myself with those objects which...inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of 20 parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 256 страници
...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By these means I can improve myself wjtjl t.hnsp . objects which others consider with terror. When I...inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of 20 parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,... | |
 | Bradford Kingman - 1892 - 368 страници
...eminent writer says, "When I properly 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 see the grief of parents for children, my heart melts with compassion, — and yet, when afterwards... | |
 | Francis Seymour Stevenson - 1893 - 164 страници
...concludes his celebrated paper in the Spectator. " When I look upon the tombs of the great," he writes, " every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 страници
...softly opened ; and there lay Argyle on the bed, sleeping, in his irons, the placid sleep of infancy. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 388 страници
...apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thonghtfulness that is not disagreeable. ' When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of tbe parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 страници
...example of 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...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion : when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 страници
...example of 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...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion : when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow... | |
 | 1894 - 650 страници
...believe that a man of settled malice could have penned the folf owing Thoughts in Westminster Abbey : " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when 1 see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must... | |
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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... 
