 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
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 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 churchyard, the... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1869 - 804 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 mind with a Sunn- ders, Carver to Charles II., James II., ' These facts were communicated to dore, an(j William... | |
 | 1870 - 1202 lehte
...estminster 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 mind with a liiud of melancholy, or rnthtr thüiightfulntbs, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole... | |
 | John Ramsay - 1871 - 414 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." If we may be allowed to hazard an opinion on this sentence,... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1872 - 246 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...• the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness which is not disagreeable." And he says, " When I look upon the tombs of the great,... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 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 churchyard, the... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 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 some such spirit as this would we contemplate the venerable... | |
 | John Wesley Thomas - 1873 - 180 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 churchyard,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 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 the whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 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 churchyard, the... | |
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