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

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 gre….

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 ….

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 ha….

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, t….

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 ….

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….

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 loa….

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 als….

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….

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 p….

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 sometim….

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: be….

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 fa….

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….

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the hig….

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 s….

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 sh….

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it..

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

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are..