 | L M. Stretch - 1801 - 248 pagina’s
...that the services we do the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. Compassion proper to mankind appears; Which nature witness'd when she lent us tears, To shew by pitying looks, and melting eyes, How with a suffering fviend we sympathize! "Who can all... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pagina’s
...certainly had been killed, had not a few European officers rescued him out of their hands. MARTINA. • " To weep is our prerogative; To show, by pitying looks and melting eyes, How with a suff'ring friend we sympathise." TATE'S Translation of JuvenalWHEN Dives and the Philanthropist Hayward... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 476 pagina’s
...one of your laureats justly expressed it, though perhaps not without some partiality to his own mind. Compassion proper to mankind appears, Which nature...she lent us tears. Of tender sentiments we only give This proof, to weep is our prerogative; To shew, by pitying loofcs and melting eyes, How with our neighbours'... | |
 | William Windham, Thomas Amyot - 1812 - 452 pagina’s
...Jto conform himself to that wish, in * Dr. Johnson's Review of Soame Jenyns on the Origin of Eril. f Compassion proper to mankind appears, Which Nature witness'd, when she lent us tears: • VOL. in. x the little sphere to whieh his influence extends. Morality .itself may perhaps .be defined,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pagina’s
...punishment On varlets, who could treat revenge and spite With such a feast, as famine's self would fright? Compassion proper to mankind appears; Which Nature...she lent us tears: Of tender sentiments we only give Those proofs: to weep is our prerogative; To show, by pitying looks and melting eyes, Jlow with a suffering... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 678 pagina’s
...consequently to diminish general pain; * Dr. Johnson's Review of Soame Jenyns on the Origin of EviL f Compassion proper to mankind appears, Which Nature...she lent us tears: Of tender sentiments we only give This proof; to weep is our prerogative. Trans, of JCVEMAJ. And further on in the Original, Separat... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 562 pagina’s
...witnessed when she gave us tears. Of tender sentiments we only give Those proofs; to weep is man's prerogative! To show by pitying looks and melting eyes, How with a suffering friend we sympathize! Who can all sense of others' ills escape, Is but a brute, at best,... | |
 | 1845 - 698 pagina’s
...consequently to diminish general pain; * Dr. Johnson's Review of Soame Jenyns on the Origin of Evil f Compassion proper to mankind appears, Which Nature...she lent us tears: Of tender sentiments we only give This proof; to weep is oar prerogative. Trans, of JUVENAL. And further on in the Original. Separat... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pagina’s
...when 'tis void of love? Dryden. Addison. Compassion proper to mankind appears, Which nature witnessed when she lent us tears; Of tender sentiments we only...give These proofs: to weep is our prerogative; To shew by pitying looks and melting eyes, How with a suffering friend we sympathize. Who can all sense... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1862 - 478 pagina’s
...who was so ignorant of thé principal glory of the human nature, as to place his pride in a barbarous insensibility. These lines, translated from Juvenal by Mr. Tate, I have been of ten pleased with: Compassion proper to mankind appears ; Which Nature witness'd, when she lent us... | |
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insensibility. These lines translated from Juvenal by Mr. Tate, I have been often pleased with : Compassion proper to mankind appears : Which Nature witness'd, when she lent us tears. Of tender sentiments WE only give These proofs : To weep is OUR prerogative... 
