... 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 - 1907 - 142 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... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - 1908 - 452 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 gloomy imaginations; but for my own part, tho I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 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... | |
| 1910 - 1042 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 upon... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 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 upon... | |
| 1910 - 450 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... | |
| Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1910 - 492 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,...melancholy; and can therefore take a view of nature, m her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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... | |
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