 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
 | 1881 - 578 sidor
...people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulncss, 2 9 6: 8tἄ I l `v !﹎a R bom upon one day and died upon another, the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 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." Addition. fl£g- " The moment I entered "Westminster Abbey I felt a kind of awe pervade my mind which... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 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,...regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing ejse of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1882 - 324 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,...inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 sidor
...himself by discoursing on the day of his execution with his friends on the immortality of the soul. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amutttng myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - 1883 - 128 sidor
...than a much higher situation in a service pointing to ultimate objects that are mean or ignoble. (5. ) I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard,...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions. (6.) Milton, after having represented in vision the history of mankind to the first great period of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 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 I met with in those several regions of the dead. 2. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day and died... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1884 - 510 sidor
...people who lie in it, are apt to 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. the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met... | |
 | 1887 - 644 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,...a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters (Kreuzgange"), and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 606 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 that 1 met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing elso • of the buried... | |
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