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" When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within 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... "
A collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, on the most ... - Página xv
por Silvester Tissington - 1857
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volumen1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 páginas
...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 of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; [140 when I meet...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 páginas
...ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I an angel, and mix with the skies! Those poets who owe their in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with...
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English Literature

Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 páginas
...are in bad taste; a sailor should not be represented as a beau. He closes with these words: " 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...
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English Prose: Seventeenth century

Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 páginas
...this style is furnished in the conclusion of his essay on the tombs in Westminster Abbey: " 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...
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Sentences and Thinking: A Practice Book in Sentence Making

Norman Foerster, John Marcellus Steadman - 1919 - 136 páginas
...parts—namely, to live. (Stevenson.) 13. 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 tomb...
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Southern Miscellanies, Volúmenes2-3

Robert L. Preston - 1919 - 100 páginas
...majestic sepulchre, I felt small sympathy with the feelings of Addison in Westminster Abbey — " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me." Rather did envy possess itself of every fibre of my being. No granite monolith, no carved and columned...
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The Grammar of Present Day English

Carl Holliday - 1919 - 168 páginas
...disposition ; he may be liked by his schoolmates; but the teachers report him as being lazy. When I look upon the tombs of the great every emotion of envy dies in me. At the doorway of his wigwam Sat the ancient Arrow-maker, In the land of the Dacotahs, Making...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 páginas
...1672-1719 WESTMINSTER ABBEY 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 tomb...
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Essays, English and American

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 páginas
...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 of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 páginas
...her person for the worse. Tale of a Tub, sect. ix. JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-1719 WESTMINSTER ABBEY 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...
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