 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! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed...  The Spanish language, la gramática inglesa, and the English reader - Page 503by Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...that infest human life." (40) I here fetched a deep sigh. (41) " 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 ! " (42) The Genins, being moved with compassion toward me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1887 - 446 pages
...autres, faisaient environ cent. Comme je I hère fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was maile in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in deathl — The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 606 pages
...cares and passions that infect human life. " I here fetched a deep sigh ; alas, said I, man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery and mortality...swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compaesion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...passions that infest human life.' " 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 1 ' " The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect.... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - Readers, American - 1888 - 366 pages
...a deep sigh. "Alas," said I, "man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality 1 tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! " The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man in the first stage of... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1888 - 108 pages
...plunge into the tide beneath. This was a picture of human life. "Alas!" said the beholder, "how is man given away to misery and mortality; tortured in life and swallowed up in death," . The good genius who had attended the dreamer told him to turn his eyes down the stream, and there where... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...cares and passions that infect human life. " I here fetched a deep sigh ; alas, said I, man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery and mortality...The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...Cares and Passions that infest human Life. "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 35 swallowed up in Death! The Genius being moved with Compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons, English - 1891 - 394 pages
...perish these when those have passed away ; — or we might come down to Addison, "Alas! man was made in vain! how is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death!" or, again, to Sir Walter Scott: "And this, I said, is the progress and the issue of human wishes! Nursed... | |
 | Sarah Neal Harris - Elocution - 1891 - 206 pages
...despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." "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 ! " "Look no more," said the Genius, "on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out... | |
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