 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 - Pagina 111geredigeerd door - 1808Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pagina’s
...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 disagree;* b!«. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church,... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pagina’s
...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 churchyard, the cloisters', and the church*, amusing myself with the tomb*-stones... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 pagina’s
...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." Isaac Barrow, " the unfair preacher," temp, Charles II. : bust and tablet. Sir Richard Coxe, Taster... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pagina’s
...people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, thai is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon...that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Moat of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pagina’s
...I thoughtftilnees that is not disagreeable. I yesterday u&ued a whole afternoon in tbe church-yarj, sion of our ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing sense, M ••••,- r .. I regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pagina’s
...language. He died in 1719. 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 tomb-stones... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pagina’s
...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 yeslerday passed the whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 pagina’s
...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 disagree able. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 82 pagina’s
...Since God is ever present.—Thomson. 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.—Addison. 8. Some murmur when their sky is clear, And wholly bright to view, If one... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 896 pagina’s
...with the solemnity of the building, and tho 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." Isaac Barrow, " the unfair preacher," temp. Charles II. : bust and tablet. Sir Richard Coxe, Taster... | |
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