 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
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 404 sidor
...applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apttcTnTl the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and iuscrjptipns that I met with in those (several regions of the ^dead.) Most of them recorded nothing... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 sidor
...with the Solemnity of the Building, and the Condition of the People who lye in it, are apt to fill the Mind with a kind of Melancholy, or rather Thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.8 I Yesterday passed a whole Afternoon in the Church-yard, the Cloysters, and the Church,... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - 1904 - 516 sidor
...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 kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable ...Upon my going into the church, I entertained myself with the digging of a grave ; and saw in every... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 sidor
...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 kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...person but that he was born upon one day and died upon another—the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 sidor
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lye in it, are 5 apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, 'or rather thoughtfulness,...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the Church-yard, the Cloysters, and the Church, amusing my self with the Tombstones and Inscriptions that I met with in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 422 sidor
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the Church-yard, the Cloysters, and the Church, amusing my self with the Tombstones and Inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most 10 of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 sidor
...condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather 10 thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday...in those several regions of the dead. Most of them I5 recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another:... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1907 - 142 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,...met with in those several regions of the dead. Most 20 of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1908 - 452 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,...cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstone and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 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,...nothing else of the buried person, but that he was bom upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those... | |
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