| Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...gay and delightful ones. By this Means I can improve myfelf with thofc Objects which others confider 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 Defire goes out; when I meet with... | |
| 1786 - 694 pages
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objects, which others coniider 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 defire goes out; when I meet with... | |
| 1789 - 508 pages
...and. delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objects, which others confider 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 defire goes out; when I meet with... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...delightful ones. By thefe means, I can improve myfelf with objects which others confider with terrow.— — 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 defire goes out ; when I meet with... | |
| John Bew - 1794 - 358 pages
...dead : nor can any thing be morejuft and beautiful than Mr. Addifon's reflections on this fubjeft : " 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 defire goes out : when I meet with... | |
| 1795 - 612 pages
...Addifon, which Mr. P. has chofen for a motto, may ferve as a proper conclufion for this article i " 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 defire goes out , when I meet with... | |
| John Baillie - Newcastle upon Tyne (England) - 1801 - 642 pages
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objefts which others confider 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 immoderate defire goes out ; when I meet with... | |
| Joseph Addison - English imprints - 1801 - 364 pages
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objecls, which others confider 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 tie lire goes out ; when I meet... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...for the contemplation of another day, when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt...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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