 ... who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions...  The Spectator - Strana 96úprava: - 1897Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - Počet stránok 610
...church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that 1 met with in those several regions of the dead. Most...two circumstances, that are common to all mankind. T could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - Počet stránok 432
...tombstones and the inscriptions that he met with in those several regions of the dead, most of which recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that...two circumstances that are common to all mankind. The "Spectator" could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - Počet stránok 550
...tombstones and the inscriptions that he met with in those several regions of the dead, most of which recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that...two circumstances that are common to all mankind. The "Spectator" could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as... | |
 | Počet stránok 518
...FIRST. In a number of the Spectator, I meet with the following profoundly philosophical passage : " Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person,...The whole history of his life being comprehended in these two circumstances that are common to all mankind, I could not hut look upon these registers of... | |
 | 1870 - Počet stránok 1202
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon, in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead I began to consider with- myself whai innumerable m • ütitudes of people lay conf used together... | |
 | Cork, Ireland. St. Fin Barre's Cathedral - 1871 - Počet stránok 156
...yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the Churchyard, the Cloisters and the Church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with...being comprehended in those two circumstances that arc common to all mankind." " Upon my going into the Church, I entertained myself with the digging... | |
 | Richard Caulfield - 1871 - Počet stránok 156
...the Cloisters and the Church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with iu those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded...being comprehended in those two circumstances that arc common to all mankind." " Upon my going into the Church, I entertained myself with the digging... | |
 | John Ramsay - 1871 - Počet stránok 414
...the three sentences which follow : — " Most of them — ie the inscriptions on the tombstones — recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that...the whole history of his life being comprehended in these two circumstances, that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - Počet stránok 344
...yesterday passed •A whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. The minutest animal, examined attentively, affords a thousand wonders. On lclu'uinS the defeaf of Pembroke,... | |
 | John Wesley Thomas - 1873 - Počet stránok 180
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon, in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead I began to consider with myself what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the... | |
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