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St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

- Karl Philipp Moritz
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

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St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.