 | 1794 - 448 pages
...are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest hitman life. ' I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I,...on man in the first stage of his existence, in his getting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several... | |
 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...envy , avarice , super-- z5o THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. stition , despair , love , with the like cares and passions that infest human life. » I here fetched...is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured iu life , and swallowed up in death ! » The genius being moved with compassion towards me , bid me... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. I here fetched...me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said'he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...urches." " These," said the genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. ' I here fetched...prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man in the lirst stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thiuc eye on that thick mist... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 324 pages
...arches." " These," said the genins, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. ' I here fetched...tortured in life, and swallowed up in death !" The genins being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more,"... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...arches. ' These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.' ' I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain 1 how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...Despair, Love, with the like cares aud passions Uiat infest human life. a I here fetched a deep sigh. a Alas! said I, man was made in vain! How is he given...so uncomfortable a prospect. « Look no more, said lie , on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 312 pages
...envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the ike cares and passions that infect human life. 6. I here fetched a deep sigh : alas, said I, man was...he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...like cares and passions, that infest human life." 'I here fetched a deep sigh. "Alas," said I, " roan was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery...mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in deatli !" The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect.... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - Conduct of life - 1824 - 348 pages
....ions that infest human life. 13. 1 here fetched a deep sigh : Alas, said I, man was made in vain i how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured...prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage ot his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which... | |
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I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect.... 
