 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By these means I can improve myself with those objects which...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. ADDISON, The Spectator, No. 26. 4. The Uses of Biography. Biography is, of the various kinds of narrative... | |
 | 1910 - 1042 pages
...the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great c'ay when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together. England By Lord Hanmer Arise up, England, from the smoky cloud That covers thee, the din of whirling... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. No. 34. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1711 — parcit Cognatis maculis similisfcra. — Juv. The club of which I... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. No. 34. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1711 — parcit Cognatis maculis similisfera. — Juv. The club of which I... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. No. 34. MONDAY, APRIL o, 1711 — • parcit Cognatis maculis similis fera. — Juv. The club of which... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1911 - 462 pages
...parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. AVhen I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. "The Spectator." JOSEPH ADDISON. 4. I stand alone upon the peaceful summit of this hill, and turn in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1911 - 278 pages
...on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. And when I read the several dates on the tombs of some that died yesterday, and some six...all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance 2 together." Our third humorist comes to speak upon the same subject. You will have observed in the... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. . . . For my own part, though I am always serious, I do...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. J. ADDISON. — Spectator, No. 26. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE THERE is no place in the town which I so much... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1884 - 820 pages
...emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire grows out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a...contemporaries and make our appearance together.* Westminster Abbey is above eulogistic phrases. Its future will, no doubt, be at least holier than its... | |
 | Alma Blount - American literature - 1914 - 406 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...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. INDEX [Numbers refer to pages] Alexandrine, 19 Allegory, 86 Alliteration, 31, 36 Allusions, 77 Ambitious... | |
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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... 
