 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 - 1880 - 618 lehte
...place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition oT 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 yes-erday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1884 - 510 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 thoughlfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, ME-3.X.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 lehte
...Westminster Abbey, where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand, and...his eyes. His attacks were, in general, directed les thonghtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the... | |
 | 1887 - 644 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... | |
 | 1888 - 266 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 opt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather, thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.... | |
 | the rev. richard lovett m.a. - 1890 - 234 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 the south aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, are other... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 256 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 30 thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 388 lehte
...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 thonghtfulness that is not disagreeable. ' When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of... | |
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