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" I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion: when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... "
Literary and Historical Memorials of London - Page 400
by John Heneage Jesse - 1847
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Instructive Rambles: In London, and the Adjacent Villages. Designed to Amuse ...

Elizabeth Helme - Adventure and adventurers - 1800 - 314 pages
...reflect with sorrow and asto••* riishment on the little competitions, fac• tions, and disputes of mankind: when ' I read the several dates of the...shall all of us be ' contemporaries, and .make our appear« ance together.' On reaching Westminster-hall, Mr. Richardson informed them it was built by...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...others consider 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...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. C. No. XXVII. SATURDAY, MARCH 31. Ut nox longa, quibus mentitur arnica, diesque Longa videtur opus...
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The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to several of his friends ..., Volume 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1804 - 450 pages
...the several dates of ' the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hun' dred years ago, 1 consider that great day when we shall all ' of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance toge" ther." Spect. Vol. 1. Numb. 26. lead your thoughts to others more peculiarly suitable to your...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...others consider 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...be contemporaries, and make our appearance together *." Equally striking and appropriate is the style of Addison, when employed on subjects whose gaiety...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...others consider 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...be contemporaries, and make our appearance together *." Equally striking and appropriate is the style of Addison, when employed on subjects whose gaiety...
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A collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, Volume 1

Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider dial. great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." ADDISON. EPITAPHS, &c. CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, OVIEDO. AT' the entrance -of this church is a most remarkable...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those, whom me must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." The three great writers, who have corrupted the publick taste, are Johnson, Gibbon and Burke. They...
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The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends, Volume 4

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Authors, Latin - 1808 - 306 pages
...disputes—I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and dehates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs,...all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together."—Sped. Vol. I. No. 26. ro; the wise, the philosophical Cicero, who were wont to give advice...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and ,somc six hundred years ago, I consider that great day,...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." (JThe three great writers, who have corrupted the publick taste, are Johnson, G'bbon and Burke. ТЪеу...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great diiy.when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." The three great writers, who have corrupted the publick tastt, are Johnson, Gibbon and Burke. They...
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