 | 1744 - 348 pagina’s
...Place, and the Ufe 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 kind of Melancholy, or rather Thonghtfulnefs, that is not difagreeable. I Yefterday puffed a whole Afternoon in the Church-yard,... | |
 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pagina’s
...to which it is applied, with the Solemnity ol 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 Thoughtfulnefs, that is not difagreeable. I know that Entertainments of this Nature are apt to railc... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pagina’s
...N" 7. the the ufe to which it is applied, with the folemnity 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 thoughtfulnefs, that is not difagreeable. I yefterday paffed a whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pagina’s
...place, and the ufe to which it is applied, with the folemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a iind-of melancholy, or rather vhoughtfulnefs, that is not difagreeable. I yeiterday pafled a whole... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pagina’s
...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 kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulhess, that is not disagreeable. Spectator, N° 26. If the latter .members of this sentence*... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pagina’s
...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...inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the de;id. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pagina’s
...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...thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tomb-stones... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pagina’s
...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...disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon m the church yard, the cloisters and the church ; amusing myself with the tomb stones and inscriptions,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pagina’s
...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...thoughtfulness', that is not disagreeable'. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the church'-yard, the cloisters', and the church', amusing myself with the tomb'-stones... | |
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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... 
