 | John S. Bender - 1880 - 268 pages
...to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who live 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... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 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." Addition. fl£g- " The moment I entered "Westminster Abbey I felt a kind of awe pervade my mind which... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of anvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men. Again, thoughtfulncss, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 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...regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing ejse of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1882 - 324 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...inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 634 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 thoughtf ulness, that is not disagreeable. .... I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1882 - 608 pages
...pi-toe, and tho use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition uf the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind •with a kind of melancholy, or rather thougbtfulness, that in not disagreeable." Addition. j^ff* " The moment I entered Westminster Abbey... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 pages
...himself by discoursing on the day of his execution with his friends on the immortality of the soul. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amutttng myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - 1883 - 128 pages
...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, or rather thoughtfulness. (10.) O sacred receptacle of my joys, Sweet cell of virtue and nobility. IV. Say whether the Classical... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 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...that I met with in those several regions of the dead. 2. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day and died... | |
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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... 
