This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...of our English kings 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 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 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...of our English kings 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 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 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 consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together." It is to be regretted that the promise conveyed at the commencement of this fine passage was not performed, and that Addison never favoured the world with his own further reflections upon this "repository of kings." His visit afterwards with Sir Roger de Coverley, in which the good knight's comments were allowed to take the place of his own, is but a poor substi...
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1846, London, Richard Bentley
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London, Richard Bentley
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1846
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Rear cover rubbed and a bit discolored; extremities worn; cloth split along two inches of rear hinge; endpapers wrinkled; pages edge-browned; faint dampstain at bottom of fore-edge, slightly affecting bottom corner of some pages; small stain on title page and at margins of a few other pages; bottom margin of p. 383 torn, affecting text; otherwise very good condition. Original cloth. 414p. Vol. 1 only.
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