 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...1745.) 25. When, says Addison, I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me : when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. — (Spectator.) 26. If freemen are fighting against the invaders of their rights, we doubt not that... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly fellow. nd real beauties, to childish gewgaws, ribands, and bone-lace. L. No. 99.] Saturday, June 23, 1711. C. No. 27.] Saturday, March 31, 1711. Ut nox longa. quibus mentitur arnica, diesque Longa videlur opus... | |
 | John Crabtree - Halifax (England) - 1836 - 602 pages
...astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind : when I read the several dates on the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." These may be solemn recollections, but are there no pleasing associations which draw the tie still... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, 1 consider that great day, when we shall all of us be...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. "3 The Druids' groves are gone — so much the better: Stone-Henge is not — but what the devil is... | |
 | Benjamin Richings - Burial - 1840 - 262 pages
...little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind ; when I read the several dates of the tombs, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make an appearance together." When age, and disappointment, and repeated strokes of affliction had deeply... | |
 | Benjamin Richings - 1840 - 264 pages
...little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind j when I read the several dates of the tombs, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make an appearance together." When age, and disappointment, and repeated strokes of affliction had deeply... | |
 | Westminster abbey - 1841 - 214 pages
...of the tombs of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, we cannot help considering that great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance before one awful judge together." OF ADMISSION. To mew the whole of the Abbey, enter at Poets'-Corner... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly fellow. earned •rom a Latin treatise of exercises that is...felicity consists in action. Every Ȁ 0 C. No. 27.] Saturday, March 31, 1711. ITt nn\- loiiL'.-i. quibus mcntitur arnica, diesque Lonpa videtur... | |
 | Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...objects which others consider with terror. " When I read in Westminster Abbey the several dates upon the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six...contemporaries and make our appearance together." Upon the present occasion I came upon the churchyard unintentionally and unexpectedly, as I was wending... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some who died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." Addison, it must be acknowledged, had faults as a writer, and failings as a man. But these were trivial,... | |
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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... 
