 WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill...  The British Essayists - Page 111edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...the buried person, but that he was born upon one day r and died upon another: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church yard, the cloisters and the church ; amusing myself with the tomb stones and inscriptions, which... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the de;id. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy or rather thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tomb-stones... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon m the church yard, the cloisters and the church ; amusing myself with the tomb stones and inscriptions,... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1818 - 1000 pages
...soul. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloister!), and the chnrch,ffm«ting myself with the tomb-stones and Inscriptions that I met with In those setteral regions of the dead. ADDISON. His diversion on this occasion was to see the cross bows, mistaken... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...with the solemnity of the building', and the condition of the people' who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy', or rather thoughtfulness', that is not disagreeable'. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the church'-yard, the cloisters', and the church', amusing myself with the tomb'-stones... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church yard, the cloisters and the church ; amusing myself with the tomb stones and inscriptions, which... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...applied, mih the solemnity of the building, and the comB tion of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not di-agreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the cburch yard, the cloisters and the church... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, 'it rather thoughtful ness, that is not disagrteable. J yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the chnrch ; amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions, which I met with in those several regions.... | |
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