 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 - Sida 111redigerad av - 1808Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1822 - 788 sidor
...myself vith the tomb-stones and inscriptions that 1 met vith in those several regions of the dead. Must easure lost amongst us. There hath been a long endeavour to transform us into foreign manners and fa mother: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are ctxBnon... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sidor
...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,...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions, which I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing / else of the... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 sidor
...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. 1 yesterday passd a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 sidor
...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. Spectator, N° 169. If the latter members of this sentence, which are very properly marked with commas,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sidor
...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,...myself with the tomb-stones and inscriptions that I met -w\\\v \xv \Kosa several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person,... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 sidor
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie jn it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions, which I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the burieJ... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 sidor
...the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, ate »pt to fill *he 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 892 sidor
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the dmch-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amuring mrstlf with the tomb-stones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Adduon. In latter ages pious frauds were made use of to asMaf vn»TA\T\A ti. But amaz'd, Behold th'... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 sidor
...pleasing to those who come only for amuiement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. Pope. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amuting myself with the tomb-stones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sidor
...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 tombstones... | |
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