 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
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 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,...disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the 1 Originally, the translation of the mottoes was deliberately withheld. churchyard, the cloisters,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 páginas
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition ot the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable. " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every notion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 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. "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every notion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 428 páginas
...the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the 5 mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness,...several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded 10 nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another ; the... | |
 | 1879 - 446 páginas
...tells us that when he is in a serious humour he takes a turn in Westminster Abbey, and he says : — " I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard,...the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the person, but that he was born upon one day and died upon another, the whole history of his life being... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill e a clear nnd certain notion thereof, than to make...the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth nmusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I mot with in those several regions of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 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 a whole 5 afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 páginas
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition oT 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 yes-erday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | John S. Bender - 1880 - 268 páginas
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who live in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 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. . . . When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs... | |
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