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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 oT the people who lie in it, are apt to fill... "
The tower, the temple, and the minster: historical and biographical ... - Page 151
by John Wesley Thomas - 1873
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...mistakes, however, will be rectified by attending to the pronunciation of the following sentence : When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by...myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of Hie place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...Night soon will seize, and you must 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 in Westminster-Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go To story'd ghosts, and Pluto's house below. CKEECH. 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...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...Ntght sOOtt will seize, imd you must quickly go To uorr'd ghosU, »nil Plato't home below. CBZICH. WHKN 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...
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The beauties of The Spectator 2nd ed., revised and enlarged with The vision ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...soon will seize , and you must quickly go To story'd ghosts, and Pluto's house belnw. CREECH. W HEN 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...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 37

British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...Night soon will seize, and you must 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 in Westminster-abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the...
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The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ...

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...s I am in a serious humour, I very often wall; by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the Roominess hich die condition of the people who lie in it, are apt •.9 fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...mistakes, however, will be rectified by attending to the pronunciation of the following sentence : When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Vbbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...mistakes, however, will be rectified by attending to the pronunciation of the following sentence : When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by...in Westminster 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...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...other, was studded with a precious mosaic of beautiful stones. II. — Reflections on Westminster Abbey. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by...myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess 01 the place, and the use to which it i* applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition...
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