 | John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 184 sider
...reflections. Let us hold converse, then, with Addison, who reposes here. Bead we now from the " Spectator:" " I know that entertainments of this nature are apt...deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 sider
...the same common mass ; — how beauty, strength, and youth ; with old age, weakness, and defjrmity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of...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 sider
...part of Albion's isle.(i) (1) [" I very often," says Addison, " walk by myself in Westminster Abbey. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt...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 sider
...of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt...deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1850 - 240 sider
...another day* when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious aa amusement.- I 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: do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 sider
...and saw in every shovelful of it that was thrown up the fragment of a bone or skull — intermixed with a kind of fresh mouldering earth, that some time...though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to he melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same... | |
 | 1853 - 524 sider
...for the contemplation of another day, when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt...deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 sider
...for the contemplation of another day, when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt...deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means 1 can improve myself with those objects which others... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 sider
...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...deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 sider
...how different a voice, says, in his famous paper on Westminster Abbey ("Spectator," No. 26:)—'Tor my own part, though I am always serious, I do not...deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies... | |
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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. 
