 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
 | 1888 - 266 páginas
...with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are opt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather, thoughtfulness,...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloiste: s, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in... | |
 | the rev. richard lovett m.a. - 1890 - 234 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 the south aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, are other tombs which enshrine the memory of tragedies.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 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,...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions which I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 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,...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions which I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1895 - 376 páginas
...with the solemnity of the building and the conditions 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1887 - 588 páginas
...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." Charles Knight says : " We could wish most heartily we knew the name of him who first gave this appellation... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1896 - 334 páginas
...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... | |
 | Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1897 - 666 páginas
...with the solemnity of the building and the conditions 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 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,...them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but he was born upon one day, and died upon another, the whole history of his life being comprehended in... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 302 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,...the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in 1 Compare with Sir Roger's visit to the Abbey (p. 119) Goldsmith's essay on p. 149, and also Washington... | |
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