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 - Página 111editado por - 1808Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 páginas
...English Proverb. "When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, and yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amus1ng myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the... | |
| 1870 - 1202 páginas
...people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a liiud of melancholy, or rnthtr thüiightfulntbs, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole...that I met with in those several regions of the dead I began to consider with- myself whai innumerable m • ütitudes of people lay conf used together... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 páginas
...mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather though tfulness that is not disagre°ablr». I yea*erday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters,...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that 1 met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person,... | |
| Richard Caulfield - 1871 - 156 páginas
...the Spectator, No. 26,) I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey . I yesterday p.nssed the whole afternoon in the Churchyard, the Cloisters and...with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with iu those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that... | |
| John Ramsay - 1871 - 414 páginas
...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." If we may be allowed to hazard an opinion on this sentence, we would say that it appears to us to be... | |
| Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 páginas
...Land. The people, seeing so many of their townsmen fall, were exasperated beyond all sense of danger. I yesterday passed •A whole afternoon in the churchyard,...that I met with in those several regions of the dead. The minutest animal, examined attentively, affords a thousand wonders. On lclu'uinS the defeaf of Pembroke,... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 páginas
...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." In some such spirit as this would we contemplate the venerable pile ; by no means unimpressed by lofty... | |
| John Wesley Thomas - 1873 - 180 páginas
...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 I began to consider with myself what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 páginas
...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 chur.ch; amusing myself with the tomb-stones... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1874 - 416 páginas
...dark I sat there, wondering whether anybody else would come '. ' I yesterday passed the whole of the afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions '. (Addison.) The participle in apposition with a noun is sometimes co-ordinating, and sometimes restrictive.... | |
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