 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 mind with a kind of melancholy,...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Page 132edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 756 pages
...well. • The following translation, however, may give an English tiying to be better, I am here." gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and tie condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1853 - 544 pages
...house below. CBEECH. 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 •' By \. !. I ii Mi dated, it is supposed, from Chelsea. See final note to No. 7. applied, with the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and 'he use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, ind the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the nind with a kind of melancholy,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...Pluto's house below. 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...disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the chureh-yard, the cloisters, and the chureh, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...house below. CREECH. 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...melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreonW" I yesterday passed a whole afternoon 80 SPECTATOR. [No. 26. in the church-yard, the cloisters,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...house below. OUEOL 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...melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagree;* b!«. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1854 - 618 pages
...house below. CEEECH. 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...the building, and the condition of> the people who He in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfuluess, Out is not... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 568 pages
...exilis Plutonia — HoR. EN 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...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,... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 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...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 - London (England) - 1855 - 1026 pages
...: " When I am in a serious humour," writes he, " I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the gloominess of the place, and the use to...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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