 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1829 - 444 pages
...the following piece of instructive eloquence : — " When I look," says the delightful moralist, " upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...delightful ones. By this means l can improve myself with objects which others consider with terrour. When 1 look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when 1 read the epitaph of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief... | |
 | William Henney - Epitaphs - 1830 - 68 pages
...subject, that the Editor trusts his Readers will be pleased at their introduction in this Advertisement. " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...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 tombs of... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...delightful 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...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of... | |
 | Manuscript memorials - 1831 - 238 pages
...by a celebrated author, in a survey of the tombs in Westminster Abbey:— " When I look," says he, " upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy...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 tombs of... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...delightfur 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...beautiful', every inordinate desire goes out' ; when I meet with the grief of parents' upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion' ; when I see the tomb... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...delightful 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...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 of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...delightful 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...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 of... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pages
...directed, and affords the only secure passport through the regions of darkness and sorrow. MELMOTH. When I look upon the tombs of the Great, every emotion...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 332 pages
...delightful 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...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heartjnelts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of... | |
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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... 
