Quotes by Karl Philipp Moritz - Page 1

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
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Building
Enormous
Literature
Mass
Mountain
Above
Buildings
Paul
Smaller
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Abbey
Gloomy
Ought
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
Dismal
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Behinds
Sorry
Towers
Windsor
I Am Me More
Once More
Perceived
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Congregation
Joining
Prayer
Solemn
Affecting
Exceedingly
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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Common
Dresses
Observation
People
Effeminate
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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Imagination
Anxious
Impression
Lasting
Lasting Impressions
Views
Object
Viewing
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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.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Cities
Funeral
Indifference
Perfect
Always Me City
Appear
Beheld
Funerals
Indecent
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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.
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Cost
Literature
London
Paid
Richmond
Two
Costs
Demanded
Passage
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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.
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Men
Country
Feet
Traveller
Considered
Wild
Foot
Meets
Pitied
Shunned
Stared
Suspected
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You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
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Running
Blue
Boys
Clergy
Coats
Feet
London
Streets
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
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Berlin
Church
Differences
London
Peter
Resemblance
Style
Appears
Notwithstanding
Paul
Respects
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In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
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Dark
Gloomy
House
Literature
Majestic
Streets
Time Great Me
Houses
Passed
Struck
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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.
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Emphasis
Husband
Literature
Milton
Widows
Account
Widow
Landlady
Proper
Reads
Tailor
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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.
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Men
Country
Prussia
Rapture
Love Man Feel
Affections
Dearest
Describe
Loves
How Much
Poets
Whilst
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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London
Orange
Two
Walks
Everywhere
Cheap
Sell
Oranges
Sees
Sold
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
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Journey
England
Forgotten
House
Importance
My Journey
Parliament
Should Have
Rewarded
Thither
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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.
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Abbey
Impression
Literature
Loaded
Marble
Ornaments
Wall
Westminster
Hardly
Intended
Monuments
Ornament
Passed
Walls
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
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Journey
Bed
Charming
Firm
Hiking
Modern World
Next Day
Rising
Myself World Walk
Myself Walk World
Imperfectly
Resolved
Revisit
Temple
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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.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Morning
Clever
Host
Oxford
Richmond
Son
Surprise
Venture
Windsor
Yesterday
Express
Farther
Intended
Leading
Send
Sufficiently
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Journey
Accomplish
Delightful
Doubt
Hiking
No Doubt
Now And Then
Pace
Everywhere
Time Always Walk
Time Walk Always
Hour
Mile
Moderate
Pleased
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Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Abbey
Church
House
Numbers
Views
Westminster
Chimney
Distinguish
Number
Round
Houses
Plainly
Presented
Seemed
Smaller
Tops
Tower
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A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!
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Country
Horse
Village
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