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 Spectator. ... - Seite 1471789Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 Seiten
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the 1 Originally,... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 538 Seiten
...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 mind with a l,:nd of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable. " When I look upon the tombs... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 544 Seiten
...place, and the use to which it is applied, 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... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 Seiten
...Westminster Abbey ; wheie 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 till the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulncss that is not disagreeable. " When... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 Seiten
...Westminster-abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity h of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening...shone out with a mighty lustre in the eyes of all thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 Seiten
...Westminster-abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it...settle a clear nnd certain notion thereof, than to thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 426 Seiten
...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 5 mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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