folding doors admitted us, amongst others, into the open and
extensive burying-place sexo bitrio which surrounds the Minster or Cathedral
Church of Glasgow. The pile is of a gloomy and sexo bitrio massive,
rather than of an elegant, style
of Gothic architecture; but sexo bitrio its
peculiar character is so strongly preserved,
and so well suited
with the accompaniments that surround it, that the impression
of the first view was awful and solemn sexo bitrio in the extreme. I was
indeed so much struck, that I resisted for a few minutes all
Andrew's efforts to sexo bitrio drag me sexo bitrio into
the interior of the building, so
deeply was I engaged in surveying its outward character.
Situated in a populous and considerable town, this ancient
sexo bitrio and sexo bitrio massive pile has the appearance of the most sequestered
solitude. High walls divide it from the buildings of the city
sexo bitrio on one side; on the other it is bounded by a ravine, at the
bottom of which, and invisible to the eye, murmurs a wandering
rivulet, adding, by its gentle noise, to the imposing solemnity
sexo bitrio of the scene. On the opposite side of the ravine rises a steep
bank, covered with fir-trees closely planted, whose dusky shade
extends
itself over the sexo bitrio cemetery with an appropriate and gloomy
effect. The churchyard sexo bitrio itself had a peculiar character; for
though in reality extensive, it is small in proportion to the
number of respectable inhabitants who are interred within it,
and whose graves are almost all covered with tombstones.
There is therefore no room for the long rank grass, which, in
most cases, partially clothes the surface of those retreats where
the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.
sexo bitrio the broad flat monumental stones are placed so close to each
other, that the precincts appear to be flagged with them, and,
though roofed only by the heavens, resemble sexo bitrio the floor of one sexo bitrio of
sexo bitrio our old English churches, where sexo bitrio the sexo bitrio pavement is covered with
sepulchral inscriptions. The sexo bitrio contents of these sad records of
mortality, the vain sorrows which they preserve, the stern lesson
which they teach of sexo bitrio the nothingness of humanity, the extent
of ground which they so closely cover, sexo bitrio and sexo bitrio their uniform and
melancholy tenor, reminded me of the roll of the prophet, which
was ``written within and without, and there was written therein
lamentations and mourning and woe.''
The sexo bitrio Cathedral itself corresponds in impressive majesty with
these accompaniments. We feel that its appearance is sexo bitrio heavy,
yet that the effect produced would