 ... 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 - 1892 - 220 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pagina’s
...beautiful festoons of seaweed', shells', and coral'. I know that entertainments' of this natured 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 objects which others consider with terrour'. When I look upon... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pagina’s
...of Blenheim', or in the bosom of the ocean*. 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... | |
 | John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 184 pagina’s
...reposes here. Bead we now from the " Spectator:" " 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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,...but, for my own part, though I am always serious, 1 do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 340 pagina’s
...Addison, " walk by myself in Westminster Abbey. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds,...gloomy imaginations : but for my own part, though 1 am always serious, 1 do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can, therefore, take a view of... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pagina’s
...plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. 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... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1850 - 240 pagina’s
...know that entertaiments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I:...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... | |
 | 1853 - 524 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pagina’s
...of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. 4. 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. + inordinate... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 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 1 can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon... | |
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