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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... "
The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index - Page 53
1836
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...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...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myselfj with those objects which others consider with terror....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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The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to several of his friends ..., Volume 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1804 - 450 pages
...within me ; when I read the " epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; " when J meet with the grief of parents, upon a tomb-stone,...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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter. " I know that entertainments of this nature are apt...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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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...therefore take a view of Nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her roost gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve...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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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...Nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in hep most gay and delightful onesi By this means I can improve myself with those objects...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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A collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, Volume 1

Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...real value, since Epictetus, the beggar, the cripple, and the slave, was the favourite of heaven. " WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...I consider the vanity of grieving for those, whom they must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider rival...
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Maxims, observations & reflections on morality and religion; selected from ...

T Nixon - 1806 - 176 pages
...of death. Solomon the wisest died, Absalom the beauty of /srae/died, and Sampson the strongest died. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the ranity of grieving for those whom we must quick. Jy follow ; when I see kings lying by those who deposed...
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Historical ..., Volume 1

Epitaphs - 1806 - 284 pages
...of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out j when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombstone,...I consider the vanity of grieving for those, whom they must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider rival...
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The British Essayists, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scene?, with 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...
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