 ... 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
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - Počet stránok 458
...yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the chur.ch; amusing myself with the tomb-stones and inscriptions that I met with...look upon these registers of existence — whether brass or marble — as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - Počet stránok 366
...tomb-stone. The most numerous class of sepulchral inscriptions do indeed record nothing else but the name of the buried person ; but that he was born upon one day and died upon another. Addison in the Spectator making this observation says, ' that he cannot look upon those registers of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - Počet stránok 364
...tomb-stone. The most numerous class of sepulchral inscriptions do indeed record nothing else but the name of the buried person ; but that he was born upon one day and died upon another. Addison in the Spectator making this observation says, ' that he cannot look upon those registers of... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - Počet stránok 498
...yesterday passed the whole afternoon in the church-yard, the ^cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with...circumstances, that are common to all mankind. I could riot but look upon these fregisters of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of "hsatire... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - Počet stránok 464
...of the mottoes was deliberately withheld. churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with...recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he \vas born upon one day and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in... | |
 | 1879 - Počet stránok 446
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with...the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the person, but that he was born upon one day and died upon another, the whole history of his life being... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - Počet stránok 582
...churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, nmusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I mot with in those several regions of the dead. Most of...nothing else of the buried person but that he was burn upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - Počet stránok 428
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tomb-stones and inscriptions that I met with...several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded 10 nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another ; the... | |
 | 1881 - Počet stránok 578
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself uching one must strike the other too ; Till jarring interests, of th bom upon one day and died upon another, the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - Počet stránok 428
...yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with...regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing ejse of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history... | |
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