 | English literature - 1759 - 742 pages
...in duration, thofe tragical diftreflès which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commifcration ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to...indignation, and 'approve of our tears, as if they were (hed for a perfon who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. " With regard to the Queen's perlón,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1759 - 636 pages
...in duration, thofe tragical diftrefles, which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to...indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were flied for a perfon who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. 1 With regard to the queen's perfon,... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...in duration, thofe tragical diftrefles, which fancy has feigned to excite furrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to...indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were (hed fora perfon who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. ' With regard to the queen's pcrfon,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1771 - 458 pages
...in duration, thofe tragical diftrefles which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation: and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to...indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were fhed for a p.erfon who had attained much nearer to pure virtue.WITH regard to the Queen's perfon, a... | |
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...in duration, thofe tragical dilbeffes which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to...indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were flied for a perfon who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. With regard to the queen's perfon,... | |
 | English literature - 1759 - 760 pages
...in duration, thole tragical diftrefles which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think or' her faults with lefi indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were fhed for a perfon who... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1795 - 682 pages
...duration, thofç tragical diftrefles which fancy has feigned to excite forr row, and commiferation; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether, to forget her frailties, \ye think pf her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were ihed for a... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1795 - 680 pages
...foryow, and cornmiferation; and while we furvey them, \ve are apt altogether , to forget her fraudes , we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears , x$ if they were fhed for a perlón who had attained muela nearer to pure Virtue, With regard to the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...in duration, thofe tragical diftrefl'es which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to...indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were fhed for a perlón who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. With regard to the queen's perfon-,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...tragical diftrefles whkh fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvcy them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with tefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were med for a perfon who had attained much... | |
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Mary's sufferings exceed, both in degree and in duration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned to excite sorrow and commiseration ; and while we survey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with less... 
