 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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...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... | |
 | John Spence (jr.), Young physician - England - 1847 - 184 pages
...we now from the " Spectator:" " 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...same 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, 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 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 : 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 pages
...Blenheim, 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;...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... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1850 - 240 pages
...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:...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 Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...in the bosom of the ocean. 4. 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. + inordinate desire goes out... | |
 | 1853 - 524 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 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;...in her most gay and delightful ones. By this means 1 can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and globmy imaginations; but for my own part, though I am always...pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By these means, I can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. 'When I look upon... | |
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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. 
