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, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view... The Spectator: ... - Page 1061778Full view - About this book
| Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...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 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in her... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Authors - 1898 - 528 pages
...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 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of Nature in her... | |
| Westminster Abbey - Cathedrals - 1901 - 158 pages
...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; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view ot nature, In her... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 410 pages
...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 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in her... | |
| George Riddle - Readers - 1902 - 648 pages
...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 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - English essays - 1902 - 302 pages
...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 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature in her... | |
| Leslie Cope Cornford - English essays - 1903 - 384 pages
...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 ; but for my own part, 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... | |
| Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...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 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her... | |
| English literature - 1906 - 578 pages
...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 serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take a view of nature in her... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...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 20 I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of... | |
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