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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. "
Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 101
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 472 pages
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...with rostral crowns and naval ornaments',0 with beautiful festoons of seaweed', shells', and coral'. I know that entertainments' of this nature^ are apt...but', for my own part', though I am always serious', "4ne'tsh4nt— not, in'tshunt. lW6r. cM6n'6-mJnts — not, munts. ctN1'tshftrc. «Or'nA'm4nts— not,...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His ..., Volume 17

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...part of Albion's isle.(') (1) [" I very often," says Addison, " walk by myself in Westminster Abbey. 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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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...for the contemplation of another day, when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement t upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been...his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others...
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Spectator (The)

English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...mind disposed for so serious an amusement. I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raisa te their cries to her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects which others...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 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...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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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...with beautiful festoons of seaweed', shells', and coral'. I know that entertaioments' of this natured are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous...but', for my own part', though I am always serious', Cnap. IV. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 269 I do not know what it is to be melancholy', and can', therefore',*...
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A Trip Home; with Some Home-spun Yarns

Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...Addison's, in the first volume of the Spectator, on the subject of church-yard cogitations ; he says — " 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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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...for the contemplation of another day, when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement. ŷ c< C % N c = 6jUӈ her most gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others...
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An Essay on Elocution, Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...with beautiful festoons of seaweed', shells', and coral'. I know that entertainments' of this natured are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous...deep and solemn scenes', with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones'. By this means', I can improve myself with objects which others consider...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...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'...
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