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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. "
Moffatt's pupil teachers' course (ed. by T. Page). Candidates, 2nd (-4th) year - Page 235
by Moffatt and Paige - 1879
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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, and gloomy' imaginations...scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay' and delightfur ones. By this means I can improve' myself with those objects which others' consider with...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His ..., Volume 17

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 332 pages
...by myself in Westminster Abbey. 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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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 17

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...by myself in Westminster Abbey. 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 hi her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...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', "4ne'tsh4nt— not, in'tshunt. lW6r. cM6n'6-mJnts — not, munts. ctN1'tshftrc. «Or'nA'm4nts— not,...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His ..., Volume 17

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...by myself in Westminster Abbey. 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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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...disposed for so serious an amusement I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and that answers well, he has ordered a Bible to be given...his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...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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A Trip Home; with Some Home-spun Yarns

Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...church-yard cogitations ; he says — " 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 read in Westminster Abbey...
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A shape withi improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of...
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An Essay on Elocution, Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...seaweed', shells', and coral'. I know that entertainments' of this natured 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 terrour'. When I look upon the tombs of the...
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