 ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take , a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.  Selections from the Spectator - Pagina 21door Joseph Addison, Kenneth Deighton - 1901 - 220 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pagina’s
...my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 pagina’s
...different a voice, says, in his famous paper on Westminster Abbey (Spectator, No. 26 ): — " For my o\vn part, though I am always serious, I do not know what...same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me ; when I read the epitaphs... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 528 pagina’s
...my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 414 pagina’s
..." For my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can 5 therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn...same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me; when I read the epitaphs... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 410 pagina’s
...with how different a voice, says, in his famous paper on Westminster Abbey (Spectator, No. 26): — " For my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can 5 therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1900 - 232 pagina’s
...have a common element of meaning, we must use the word that suggests the shade of meaning we require. Though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy. One may be in haste, one should not be in a hurry. EXERCISE I. —Write sentences bringing out the... | |
 | Westminster Abbey - 1901 - 158 pagina’s
...rather thonghtfulness, that is not disagreeable I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and...is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view ot nature, In her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as In her most gay and delightful... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 266 pagina’s
...my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon... | |
 | George Riddle - 1902 - 648 pagina’s
...my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds,...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 pagina’s
...find my mind disposed to so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon... | |
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