 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1869 - 804 pages
...structure of the Abbey with the reflections of Addison : — survey. When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where...people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a Sunn- ders, Carver to Charles II., James II., ' These facts were communicated to dore, an(j William... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...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...fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather though tfulness that is not disagre°ablr». I yea*erday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard,... | |
 | 1870 - 1202 pages
...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...people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a liiud of melancholy, or rnthtr thüiightfulntbs, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole... | |
 | John Ramsay - 1871 - 414 pages
...essay. The first sentence of this essay is as follows : — " When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the...rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable." If we may be allowed to hazard an opinion on this sentence, we would say that it appears to us to be... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 pages
...makes the first impression." " When I am in a serious mood," wrote Addison in the Spectator, " I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the...or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable." In some such spirit as this would we contemplate the venerable pile ; by no means unimpressed by lofty... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...immediately introduced by it. REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 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 churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1872 - 246 pages
...Spectator, that when he was in a serious humour, he often walked by himself in Westminster Abbey, " when the gloominess of the place, and the use to which...with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness which is not disagreeable." And he says, " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of... | |
 | John Wesley Thomas - 1873 - 180 pages
...(No. 26,) we shall conclude our description of the Minster. "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 churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 pages
...the terror of battle. Blair. Reflections in Westminster Abbey, 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 church-yard, the cloisters, and the chur.ch; amusing... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 pages
...adventure in the Reservoir." WESTMINSTER ABBEY. BY JOSEPH ADDISON. HEN I am in a serious humor 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 churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself... | |
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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... 
