 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...same promiscuous heap of matter. " I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations...most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...same promiscuous heap of matter, " I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations...deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in hep most gay and delightful onesi By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...same promiscuous heap of matter. " I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations...serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and caa therefore take a view of Nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds, and gloomy imaginations ; but for niv own part, though I am always serious, I do not know...therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scene?, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...Disposed for so serious an amusement. I know *hat entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds, and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though 1 am always serious, I do not know what it is to he melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...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...most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...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...most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When 1 look upon the tombs of... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...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, though I am alwats serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...festoons of seaweed, shells and coral. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations...most gay and delightful ones. By this means, I can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...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...most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of... | |
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... 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. 
