 | Edwin McKean Long - Hymn writers - 1876 - 664 pages
...and to turn it out of the channels of gloom and despondency into which it was so apt to run. He says: "It is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like...fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. " Some friends in hearty sympathy with him on account of his mental depression, presented him with... | |
 | Edwin McKean Long - History - 1875 - 600 pages
...and to turn it out of the channels of gloom and despondency into which it was so apt to run. He says: "It is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like...fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. " Some friends in hearty sympathy with him on account of his mental depression, presented him with... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1875 - 352 pages
...'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.' 11. 298-304. ' Poetry, above all things, is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget everything that is irksome,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pages
...'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.' 11. 298-304. ' Poetry, above all things, is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget everything that is irksome,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1876 - 454 pages
...bitterly acknowledged the depressing influence of the darkened year. In December, 1 780, he writes : " At "this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...mind like mine to divert it from sad subjects, and to fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement." Or was it because he was writing to the dreadful... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 104 pages
...bitterly acknowledged the depressing influence of the darkened year. In December, 1780, he writes: "At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...mind like mine to divert it from sad subjects, and to fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement." Or was it because he was writing to the dreadful... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1879 - 454 pages
...bitterly acknowledged the depressing influence of the darkened year. In December, l 780, he writes : " At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...matter for the owner of a mind like mine to divert it'from sad subjects, and to fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement." Or was it because... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...has lately taught me to draw.' Again, in a latter to Newton 2 : 1 April 6, 1 780. 1 Dec. 21, 1780. ' At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine to divest it from sad subjects and to fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. Poetry, above... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...has lately taught me to draw.' Again, in a latter to Newton 2 : .' April 6, 1780. 2 Dec. 21, 1780. ' At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine to divest it from sad subjects and to fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. Poetry, above... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...and has lately taught me to draw.' Again, in a latter to Newton" : 1 April6, 1780. 2 Dec. ai, 1780. 'At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, i< is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine to divest it from sad subjects and to fix it... | |
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At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. 
