 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 oT the people who lie in it, are apt to fill...  All the Year Round - Page 2071887Full view - About this book
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pages
...Signifying nothing. " — Shakespeare. " He lies like an Epitaph." — Old English Proverb. "When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, and yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amus1ng myself... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...soon will seize, and you must quickly go To story'd. ghosts, and Pluto^ house below. CREECH. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; Tfhere the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the... | |
 | 1870 - 1202 pages
...whose words in the " Spectator," (No. 20,) we shall conclude our description of the Minster. " When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in ^ estminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the... | |
 | William Lennie - 1872 - 248 pages
...nothing. He did not go, as he was told to remain at home. The noise pursues me wheresoe'er I go. When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey. You have more circumspection than is wanted. Although we seldom followed advice, we were all ready... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 pages
...i — 7, 14. " When 1 am ma serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; whole the gloominess of the place, and the use to which...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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 pages
...bodies are buried ,n peace, but their name liveth lor evermore." — Ecclesiafticus xlw. s — 7, 14. " When 1 am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; wheie the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...fall into their hands. The Spectator, No. 2I, Saturday, March 24, 1710-11. WE8TMIN8TER ABBEY. When I ate much of their invectives, and her Westminster-abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 pages
...soon will seize, and you mnst quickly go To story'd ghosts, and Pluto's house below. CREECH. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself...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 S. Bender - 1880 - 268 pages
...literary genius as well as a Christian philosopher, in AD 1711 wrote : " When I am in a serious humor, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey,...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... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 pages
...resentments; in living peaceably, not indulging himself in contentions. When I am in a serious hnmar, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey,...the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it ]• applied, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy. SPECTATOR. In the great articles... | |
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