 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
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 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, thai is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 lehte
...writer of the Spectator. His writings afford -the best models of style in our language. He died in 1719. 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 - 1857 - 780 lehte
...Westminster-abbey : where the gloominess of the place, and the usv to which it im applied, with the solemnity polilus,) for a people to be so stupidly fond of the...Italian opera, as scarce to give a third day's hea mclaucholy, or rather I thoughtftilnees that is not disagreeable. I yesterday u&ued a whole afternoon... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 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 thoughtfulncss, that is not disagreeable. — Addison. 8. Some murmur when their sky is clear, And... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 82 lehte
...setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, 'tis nought to me, Since God is ever present.—Thomson. and the condition of the people who lie in it, are...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.—Addison. 8. Some murmur when their sky is clear, And wholly... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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,... | |
 | Sir Henry Cole - 1867 - 154 lehte
...use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building and the condition of the people who He in it, are apt to 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,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 612 lehte
...Westminster Abbey ; when 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, which is not disagreeable. . . . When 1 look upon the tomb of the great, every emotion... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 896 lehte
...gloominess of the place, and the nse to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and tho 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." Isaac Barrow, " the unfair preacher," temp. Charles II.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 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 lie in it, are apt to fill the miud with a kind of melancholy, or rather thonghtfulness, that is not disagreeable." Isaac Barrow,... | |
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