 ... 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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 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,...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... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - 1921 - 576 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... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1921 - 444 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... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - 1921 - 582 pagina’s
...raise dark and dismal thoughts if timorous minds and gloomy imaginations; but for my own part, thonsrh I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be...take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, will' the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pagina’s
...my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to : we cannot know, For knowledge is of thing this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - 1924 - 300 pagina’s
...presence of tombs as is Horace's. " I know," he says, " 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." In fact the " kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness " produced by such a place is " not unpleasing."... | |
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 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 my self with those Objects, which others consider with Terror. When I look... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pagina’s
...to fill the Mind with a kind of Melancholy, or rather Thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. . . For my own part, though I am always serious, I do...Pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve my self with those Objects, which others consider with Terror. When I look... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pagina’s
...my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to and equals all. X. Cease then, nor order imperfection...Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 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 my self with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look... | |
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