 ... 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
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pagina’s
...entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and globmy imaginations; but for my own part, though I am always...delightful ones. By these means, I can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. 'When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 pagina’s
...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...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 - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...how different a voice, says, in his famous paper on Westminster Abbey ("Spectator," No. 26:)—'Tor my own part, though I am always serious, I do not...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pagina’s
...undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter ! I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and...though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to he melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...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...to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nar ture in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.... | |
 | William Russell - 1853 - 432 pagina’s
...fast | ." j Tl | Tl I Tl | Didactic Style. R -jlec'^ions in Westminster Abbey. — Addison. | **| " Though I am | always | serious | , | **| I do not | know -what it | is | ^ to be | melancholy | ; | T*| | ~] and can 1 therefore | take a | view of | Nature | **| in her | deep | **| and | solemn... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pagina’s
...apt to raise dark and dismal ttsghts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; hut for my **apirt, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to k Beianeholy ; and can, therefore, take a view of nature in her fat and solemn scenes, with the same... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 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...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 j when I read the epitaphs... | |
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