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 Spectator. ... - Page 1471789Full view - About this book
| British empire - 1847 - 856 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable." In another passage he says, " When I see kings lying by... | |
| Nathan Marcus Adler - 1848 - 784 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. What innumerable multitudes of people lie confused together... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the churchyard,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable." In another passage, he says, " When I see kings lying by... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 874 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable." In another passage, he says, " When I see kings lying by... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the churchyard,... | |
| J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 lehte
...Westminster A'bbey, where the gloominess of the pldce, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thdughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternobn in the churchydrd, the... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 lehte
...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...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,... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 596 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. 1 yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the... | |
| 1853 - 524 lehte
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church yard,... | |
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