...and delightful ones. By this means I can improve my self with those Objects, which others consider with Terror. When I look upon the Tombs of the Great,...read the Epitaphs of the Beautiful, every inordinate Desire goes out; when I meet with the Grief of Parents upon a Tomb-stone, my Heart melts with Compassion...

...and delightful ones. By this means I can improve my self with those Objects, which others consider with Terror. When I look upon the Tombs of the Great,...read the Epitaphs of the Beautiful, every inordinate Desire goes out ; when I meet with the Grief of Parents upon a Tomb-stone, my Heart melts with Compassion...

...the moods of the writers. Thus we find Addison writing in a style that is both smooth and dignified: "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; . . . when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb...

...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider great to grant, as mighty to make, And creates the...for my own love's sake ! Delayed it may be for more desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion:...

...and delightful ones. By this means I can improve my self with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great,...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion;...

...interieruiit i Melmoth quotes the reflections of Addison in Westminster Abbey (Spectator, No. 26) : • 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 ; wlien I meet...

...merely to paraphrase it. Addison in his essay on Thoughts in Westminster Abbey, says substantially this: "When I look upon the tombs of the great every emotion of envy dies in me. When I read the epitaphs of those, some of whom died but yesterday, some of whom died hundreds of years ago, every ignoble ambition...

...with the short face, the genial Spectator : " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion 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...

...Sir, I read, and then I breakfast; I sometimes study, sometimes eat. \ 1711 Addison, Spect. no. 26, When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me. (1711 Steele, Spect. no. 24, //"you walk in the Park, one of them will certainly join with you, tho'...

...be unconscious of the dignity of the style in which the great writer records his reflections : — ' When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...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;...