... come upon us by anticipation. A thrill passes over us, it is true, whensoever we read the name of a place where we have once been happy, but it is the privilege of a tranquil state of melancholy to people the mind with quiet visions of the past, and... The Maiden Aunt - עמוד 205מאת Menella Bute Smedley - 1849 - 241 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1848 - 322 דפים
...engaging it for the winter, instead of occupying the small cottage in its neighbourhood where she bad been passing the last few months and at which Edith...thoughts have either become callous, or were never .-.live to their acutest painfulness. They know not the sensation of utter powcrlessnese which has... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 612 דפים
...memorial sorrow does not excite the imagination and во come upon us by anticipation. A thrill pusses over us, it is true, whensoever we read the name of...thoughts have either become callous, or were never i.live to their acutest painfulness. They know not the sensation of utter powerlessness which has no... | |
| 1848 - 636 דפים
...melancholy to people the mind with quiet visions of the past, and to embody, as it were, and localize the picture by particular features of landscape or...powerlessness which has no alternative but escape or prusi ration — the cowardice of a bleeding and undefended heart. Every tree or stone that we see... | |
| Mrs. J. Thayer - 1853 - 144 דפים
...melancholy to people the mind with quiet visions of the past, and to embody as it were, and localize the picture by particular features of landscape or...of an unmellowed grief leaves no leisure, no power of such embellishments of sorrow. Those who involuntarily dwell upon unhappy thoughts have either become... | |
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