 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
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 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 The - 1816 - 348 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 The - 1816 - 372 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 the whole afternoon in the churchyard,... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 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,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...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'...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy', or rather thoughtfulness', that is not disagreeable'. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the church'-yard,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 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 - 1819 - 366 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...are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, 'it rather thoughtful ness, that is not disagrteable. J yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...the place, and the use to which it is applied, mih the solemnity of the building, and the comB tion of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not di-agreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the cburch yard,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...Westminster Vbbey ; 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 thoughtful ness, that is not disagreeable. Spect. JVo. 428. If the latter members of this sentence,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...Abbey ; where the gloominess of the plflce, 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. Spectator, N° 169. If the latter members of this sentence,... | |
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