 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 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...deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in hei most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 406 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;...take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, %vith the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 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 1 am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 pages
...nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations; but,for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds, imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always...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... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...d-irk and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gioomy imaginations ; but, for my own part, though 1 am always serious, I do not know what it is to be...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By thi? means, 1 car^ improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. — When I look upon... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...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; 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... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 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 always 119 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...Addison, in a paper on this subject, " 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. 
