 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 - Pagina 111geredigeerd door - 1808Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pagina’s
...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 - 1814 - 424 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 1817 - 416 pagina’s
...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 - 1818 - 1000 pagina’s
...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 - 1819 - 448 pagina’s
...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 - 1820 - 422 pagina’s
...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 - 1820 - 398 pagina’s
...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 - 1819 - 366 pagina’s
...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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