 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...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...or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. 1 yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...pldce, 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, or rather thdughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternobn in the churchydrd, the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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 - 1854 - 618 pages
...to which it is applied, with the solemnity of 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 disagrecnhl". [ yesterday passed a whole afternoon 80 SPECTATOR. [N«. 2«.... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...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...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 - 1855 - 818 pages
...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...rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable." Isaac Barrow, " the unfair preacher," temp, Charles II. : bust and tablet. Sir Richard Coxe, Taster... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...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, or rather thoughtfulness, thai is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...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, or rather tlioughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
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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... 
