 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 256 pages
...for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to 10 raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By these means I can improve myself wjtjl t.hnsp . objects which others consider with terror. When I look... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...different a voice, says, in his famous paper on Westminster Abbey (Spectator, No. 26 ): — " For my o\vn part, though I am always serious, I do not know what...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... | |
 | 1897 - 282 pages
...for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to JO raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations...of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the sa,no pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By these means l can improve myself with those... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 414 pages
..." For my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can 5 therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn...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 - English literature - 1900 - 410 pages
...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 not know what it is to be melancholy, and can 5 therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - English language - 1900 - 232 pages
...have a common element of meaning, we must use the word that suggests the shade of meaning we require. Though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy. One may be in haste, one should not be in a hurry. EXERCISE I. —Write sentences bringing out the... | |
 | Westminster Abbey - Cathedrals - 1901 - 158 pages
...thonghtfulness, that is not disagreeable I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations;...is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view ot nature, In her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as In her most gay and delightful... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - English essays - 1902 - 302 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... | |
 | George Riddle - Readers - 1902 - 648 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. 
