 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 Seiten
...festoons of sea-weed, shells, and coral. But to return to our subject. I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day,...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 Seiten
...festoons of sea-weed, shells, and coral. But to return to our subject. I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day,...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | 1823 - 406 Seiten
...is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, %vith the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 Seiten
...deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means 1 can improve myself with those objects, which others...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 Seiten
...the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means, I can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. — When...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 266 Seiten
...consider it well; read it, and it will instruct thee, plenius et melius Chrysippo et Crantore. .XLI. o ' When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 Seiten
...improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs oi the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | 1824 - 310 Seiten
...nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations; but,for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - 1824 - 392 Seiten
...REFLECTIONS. " When I look (says Addison) upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me. When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion. When I see the tombs of parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds, imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always...vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by... | |
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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... 
