 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...quickly fa To slory'd ghosts, and Pluto's bouse below. CrweA, WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the...or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...quickly fro Tostory'd ghosw, and Pluto's house below. Crock. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very gh it is not impossible but I may make discoveries of both in the progress of antl the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...great respect. Some time after my retreat. Remarkable for beauty. When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the...are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy that is not disagreeable.— Addlson. The misery of jails is not half their evil ; they are filled... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...serious' humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbeyv, where the gloominess of the placev, and the use'. to which it is applied, with the solemnity...lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholyv, or rather thoughtfulness', that is not disagreeablev. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon... | |
 | John Millen - 1846 - 134 pages
...Jacob's sons' wives, — all the souls were threescore and six. 32. When I am in a serious humour I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where...or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...found. " When I am in a serious humour," says he, in the first of his papers on the subject, " I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the...rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable." In another passage he says, " When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, — when I consider... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...LESSON LXXIII. Reflections in Westminster Alibcij. — ADDISON. WHF.NI am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfiilness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
 | Nathan Marcus Adler - 1848 - 784 pages
...Addisou, I will tell you further where we are :— " When I am in a serious humour," says Addison, "I often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the...or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. What innumerable multitudes of people lie confused together under the pavement. Men and women—friends... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...cunning to seem to know that he doth not. XVI WESTMINSTER ARREY. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the...or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 902 pages
...found. " When I am" in a serious humour," says he, in the first of his papers on the subject, ': I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the...rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable." In another passage, he says, " When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, — when I consider... | |
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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... 
