 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...  Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851 - Seite 205herausgegeben von - 1851 - 860 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Andrew J. Coulson - 490 Seiten
...was intended for the equivalent of today's eighth- to tenth-graders: When I am in a serious humor. I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey....the condition of the people who lie in it. are apt 1o fill the mind with a kind of melancholy. or rather thoughtfulness. that is not disagreeable. I yesterday... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 Seiten
...offers a sharper taste of the new feeling. Joseph Addison observes, 'When I am in a serious Humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey;...the Building, and the Condition of the People who lye in it, are apt to fill the Mind with a kind of Melancholy, or rather Thoughtfulness, that is not... | |
 | Rebecca Solnit - 2001 - 340 Seiten
...1711 the essayist Joseph Addison wrote, "When I am in a serious Humour, I very often walk by my self in Westminster Abbey,- where the Gloominess of the Place, and the Use to which it is applied . . . are apt to fill the Mind with a kind of Melancholy, or rather Thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable."... | |
 | Rosemary Sweet - 2004 - 532 Seiten
...5 vols (Oxford, 1965), i, pp. 108-11: 'When I am in a serious Humour, I very often walk by my self in Westminster Abbey; where the Gloominess of the...the Building, and the Condition of the People who lye in it, are apt to fill the Mind with a kind of Melancholy, or rather Thoughtfulness, that is not... | |
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