 | Germany - 1740 - 476 pages
...fear nor grieve beyond Meafure, *' Meafure ; and can fay, with your excellent Spec*' tator, rhat (ho* I am always Serious, I do not know " what it is to be Melancholy : I never rejoice to Ex•* cefs ; I fufFer not Anger to get the better of my " Reafon -, I envy no... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1778 - 400 pages
...fentiments of Sulpicius. " When I look upon the tombs of the great, (/ays the incomparable Addifon) " every emotion of envy dies within me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate defire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-ftone, my heart melts with compaffion... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1778 - 404 pages
...fentiments of Sulpicius. " When I look upon the tombs of the great, (fays the incomparable Addifon) " every emotion of envy " dies within me ; when I read...the epitaphs of the beautiful, " every inordinate defire goes out ; when I meet with the " grief of parents upon a tomb-ftone, my heart melts with "... | |
 | Great Britain - 1778 - 378 pages
...thoughts in timorous minds, and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view C/f nature, in her deep and folema fcenes, with the fame pleafure as in her moft gay and delightful... | |
 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...delightful ones. By this Means I can improve myfelf with thofc Objects which others confider 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 Defire goes out; when I meet with... | |
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...thoughts in timorous minds, and gloomy imaginations; but for my own part, though I am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore; take a view of nature, in her deep and folemn fceijf s, with the fame pleafure ať in her moft gay and delightful ones. By this means I can... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...thoughts in timorous minds, and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and folemn fcenes, with the fame pleafure as in her moft gay and. delightful ones. By this means I can... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations: but, for my own part, though I am -always ierious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and folemn fcenes, with the fame pleafure as in her mod gay and delightful ones. By thefe means, I can... | |
 | John Bew - 1794 - 358 pages
...dead : nor can any thing be morejuft and beautiful than Mr. Addifon's reflections on this fubjeft : " 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 defire goes out : when I meet with... | |
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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... 
