Quotes by Karl Philipp Moritz

Karl Philipp Moritz

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!

Country

Horse

Village

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.

Country

Feet

Men

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.

London

Orange

Two

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.

Literature

Ornaments

Wall

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.

Imagination

Lasting Impressions

Views

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

Behinds

Sorry

Towers

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.

House

Journey

Should Have

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.

Hiking

Journey

Next Day

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.

Cost

Literature

Two

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.

Dark

House

Literature

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Cities

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Common

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Differences

Doubt

Dresses

Feet

Funeral

Gloomy

Hiking

Horse

House

Husband

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Joining

Journey

Lasting Impressions

Literature

London

Men

Morning

Mountain

Next Day

Numbers

Orange

Ornaments

Ought

People

Perfect

Prayer

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Running

Should Have

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Son

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Quotes by Karl Philipp Moritz

Karl Philipp Moritz

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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