 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. ... - Page 1471789Full view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...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. 1 yesterday passd a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...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 churchyard, the... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 406 pages
...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 church-yard,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess 01 the place, and the use to which it i* 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 church-yard?... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...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 church-yard,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 pages
...Westminster-abbey; w.here 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 churchyard, the... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 church-yard,... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie jn it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...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, ate »pt to fill *he mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...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 church-yard,... | |
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