 | Elizabeth Helme - 1800 - 314 trang
...reflect with sorrow and asto••* riishment on the little competitions, fac• tions, and disputes of mankind: when ' I read the several dates of the...shall all of us be ' contemporaries, and .make our appear« ance together.' On reaching Westminster-hall, Mr. Richardson informed them it was built by... | |
 | 1803 - 434 trang
...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. C. No. XXVII. SATURDAY, MARCH 31. Ut nox longa, quibus mentitur arnica, diesque Longa videtur opus... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1804 - 450 trang
...the several dates of ' the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hun' dred years ago, 1 consider that great day when we shall all ' of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance toge" ther." Spect. Vol. 1. Numb. 26. lead your thoughts to others more peculiarly suitable to your... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 trang
...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...powers of contrast. " When nature," he ob* Spectator, N°26. serves, " is in her desolation, and presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects,... | |
 | Collection - 1806 - 286 trang
...several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider dial. great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." ADDISON. EPITAPHS, &c. CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, OVIEDO. AT' the entrance -of this church is a most remarkable... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 trang
...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...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. C. V 27. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1711. Vt nox loaga quibus mentitur arnica, diesque Longa ridetur ojna... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 trang
...when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those, whom me must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." The three great writers, who have corrupted the publick taste, are Johnson, Gibbon and Burke. They... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1808 - 306 trang
...disputes—I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and dehates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs,...all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together."—Sped. Vol. I. No. 26. ro; the wise, the philosophical Cicero, who were wont to give advice... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 trang
...debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and ,somc six hundred years ago, I consider that great day,...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." (JThe three great writers, who have corrupted the publick taste, are Johnson, G'bbon and Burke. ТЪеу... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 trang
...tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great diiy.when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." The three great writers, who have corrupted the publick tastt, are Johnson, Gibbon and Burke. They... | |
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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... 
