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" 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... "
Harrison's British Classicks - Page 53
1786
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Select lessons in prose and verse, from various authors, to which are added ...

Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...that is not difagreeable. I know that Entertainments of this Nature are apt to railc dark and difinal Thoughts in timorous Minds, and gloomy Imaginations:...ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; an>i can therefore take a View of Nature in her deep and folemn Scenes, with the fame Pleafure as in...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...feftoons of fea-weed, fliclls, and coral. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to taife dark and difmal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy...imaginations: but, for my own part, though I am -always ierious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take a view of nature in her...
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The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected ..., Volume 2

Joseph Addison - English imprints - 1801 - 364 pages
...En^Ujh Kings for the contemplation of another d;iy, when 1 fhall find myfelf difpofed for fo ferious an amufement. I know that entertainments of this nature...thoughts in timorous minds, and gloomy imaginations ; butfor my own part, though I am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy , and can...
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An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Its ...

John Baillie - Newcastle upon Tyne (England) - 1801 - 642 pages
...!" " I know, fays Addifon, (the fweetefl writer in queen Anne's reign) that contemplations of that nature are apt to raife dark and difmal thoughts in...timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my part, though I am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 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...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

English literature - 1803 - 420 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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...promiscuous heap of matter. " 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...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...promiscuous heap of matter, " 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...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...so serious an amusement. I know *hat 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 he melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature,...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 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...
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