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Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs In Westminster Abbey,
dinner , and I did not . It is , however , extremely probable , he had dined upon the dead ; so had I . He renewed his civilities , aud seemed pleased when he could open a treat I had not tasted . Upon my inquiries about the vault erected by George the ^ Second , he informed me it was under the chapel of I-Ieniy the Seventh , into which I could not enter without a stone mason . He pointed out the spot where lie FredericPrince of Wales
, , his brother , the Duke of Cumberland , George , and his Queen ; and said , that by order of George the Second , the right side of Queen Caroline ' s coffin was taken away , and the left of his own , and their arms w ere linked together after death , as their affections had been before . Our pleasures must have an end . It is well they must , or what
would be the consequence in our pains ? Time removes both . I left this interesting place , with that solemn regret which a man feels , who quits a favourite curiosity he has not seen half enough , and which he probably will never see more .
On The Passions Of The Ancients.
ON THE PASSIONS OF THE ANCIENTS .
THAT love was ( far beyond all others ) the most predominant passion in the breasts of the ancients , is a truth so evident , that I presume it will not admit of any dispute : for if we examine the annals of antiquity with the most minute circumspection , we shall find that the greatest heroes , as well as the best and wisest of men , have , in . all ages , yielded an implicit obedience to the resistless impulsesof that passion
, and have felt the displeasure of the fair sex with much greater sensibility than the loss of their most respectable friends . It is ' true they ' will give us instances of the most generous and disinterested friendship , such as are indeed highly worthy of our emulation ; but , alas , how infinitely insufficient are they to counterbalance the weaknesses which are peculiar to that effeminate passion of loye !
Should we , with the historian , follow an Achilles , an Alexander , or a Hannibal , to the field of battle , how would our bosoms glow with a transport of admiration even at the bare recital of their glorious actions ! But how ridiculous and contemptible will those very heroes appear to us , when we behold them sobbing and sniveling at the feet of their false mistressesor expiring at the frowns of an infamous
wo-, man ! The heathen mythologists were so well convinced of the influences of love over the soul , that they have represented their imaginary deities not only susceptible of that passion , but entirely enslaved by it ; for we find that Jupiter himself condescended to quit his celestial man-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs In Westminster Abbey,
dinner , and I did not . It is , however , extremely probable , he had dined upon the dead ; so had I . He renewed his civilities , aud seemed pleased when he could open a treat I had not tasted . Upon my inquiries about the vault erected by George the ^ Second , he informed me it was under the chapel of I-Ieniy the Seventh , into which I could not enter without a stone mason . He pointed out the spot where lie FredericPrince of Wales
, , his brother , the Duke of Cumberland , George , and his Queen ; and said , that by order of George the Second , the right side of Queen Caroline ' s coffin was taken away , and the left of his own , and their arms w ere linked together after death , as their affections had been before . Our pleasures must have an end . It is well they must , or what
would be the consequence in our pains ? Time removes both . I left this interesting place , with that solemn regret which a man feels , who quits a favourite curiosity he has not seen half enough , and which he probably will never see more .
On The Passions Of The Ancients.
ON THE PASSIONS OF THE ANCIENTS .
THAT love was ( far beyond all others ) the most predominant passion in the breasts of the ancients , is a truth so evident , that I presume it will not admit of any dispute : for if we examine the annals of antiquity with the most minute circumspection , we shall find that the greatest heroes , as well as the best and wisest of men , have , in . all ages , yielded an implicit obedience to the resistless impulsesof that passion
, and have felt the displeasure of the fair sex with much greater sensibility than the loss of their most respectable friends . It is ' true they ' will give us instances of the most generous and disinterested friendship , such as are indeed highly worthy of our emulation ; but , alas , how infinitely insufficient are they to counterbalance the weaknesses which are peculiar to that effeminate passion of loye !
Should we , with the historian , follow an Achilles , an Alexander , or a Hannibal , to the field of battle , how would our bosoms glow with a transport of admiration even at the bare recital of their glorious actions ! But how ridiculous and contemptible will those very heroes appear to us , when we behold them sobbing and sniveling at the feet of their false mistressesor expiring at the frowns of an infamous
wo-, man ! The heathen mythologists were so well convinced of the influences of love over the soul , that they have represented their imaginary deities not only susceptible of that passion , but entirely enslaved by it ; for we find that Jupiter himself condescended to quit his celestial man-