 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...divert any such vote in the house. LORD CLARENDON 247. REFLECTION ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Though I am .always serious, I do not know what it...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Cole - 1867 - 154 pages
...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. Sly this msans I can improve myself with those objects which others... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...the contemplation of another day, when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious 5an 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 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...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... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient A SOLEMN "SPECTATOR." 117 cathedral ; how men and women, friends and enemies,...gloomy imaginations ; but, for my own part, though 1 am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 256 pages
...mind disposed 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...deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones. By these means I can improve myself wjtjl t.hnsp . objects which... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
