 Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.  Select British Classics - Pagina 781804Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pagina’s
...tyranny, and finding enmity in every law. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility ! or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse ! Tenderness, without a capacity for relieving, only makes the heart that feels it, more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 pagina’s
...others security becomes an enemy to them. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse?...wretched than the object which sues for assistance. — Adieu. LEIGH HUNT. (1784-1859.) XL. A FEW THOUGHTS ON SLEEP. THIS is an article for the reader... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pagina’s
...others security becomes an enemy to them. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility, or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse ?...wretched than the object which sues for assistance. Adieu. Letter CXVII. complete. From the Citizen of the World. 1976 EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE (1849-) AN... | |
 | Charles Augustus Whittuck - 1901 - 292 pagina’s
...sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! . . . Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility ! or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse !...wretched than the object which sues for assistance." 2 (7) His experience specially inclines him to sympathise with the poor. " The miseries of the poor... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pagina’s
...we gain the strength of the temptations we resist. — Emerson. Tenderness, without a capacity for relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. — Coldsmith. There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.... | |
 | 1906 - 578 pagina’s
...others security, becomes an enemy to them. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse ?...wretched than the object which sues for assistance. Adieu. LETTER CXIX To the Same ON THE DISTRESSES OF THE POOR; EXEMPLIFIED IN THE LIFE OF A PRIVATE... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pagina’s
...most amiable : and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest. — t'ieliling. ese firmest props of the duties of men and citizens....indulge the supposition that morality can be * expect — Ooldsmilh. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pagina’s
...the most amiable : and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest. — Fielding. ionalist. There are times when God asks nothing of...except silence, patience, and tears. — CS Robinson. — Qoldemith. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1914 - 434 pagina’s
...tyranny, and finding enmity in every law. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility ! or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse !...Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the heart that feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. But let me turn from a... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1979 - 422 pagina’s
...deflected to another question entirely: "Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse!...wretched than the object which sues for assistance." Which leaves us with an easy escape hatch. One might, with a little intellectual stretching and considerable... | |
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