Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk: To Which Is Added, PostScript, Addressed to Samuel T. Coleridge, Esq. (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk: To Which Is Added, Postscript, Addressed to Samuel T. Coleridge, Esq.

The pride of her nation. I arrived, at least, without pre judices against that which I should see, and was ready to open myself to such impressions as might come. I know no city, where the lofty feelings, generated by the ideas of antiquity, and the multitude of human beings, are so much swelled and improved by the admixture of those other lofty, perhaps yet loftier feelings, which arise from the contemplation of free and spacious nature herself. Edin were its population as great as that of London, could never be merely a city. Here there must always be present the idea of the comparative littleness of all human works. Here the proudest of palaces must be content to catch, the shadows of mountains; and the grandest of for tresses to appear like the dwellings of pigmies, perched on the very bulwarks of creation. Every where - all around - you have rocks frowning over rocks in imperial elevation, and descending, among the smoke and dust of a city, into dark depths, such as nature alone can excavate. The builders of the old city, too, appear as if they had made nature the model of their architecture. Seen through the lowering mist which almost perpetually envelops them, the huge masses of these erections, so high, so rugged in their outlines, so heaped together, and conglomerated and wedged into each other, are not easily to be distinguished from the yet larger and bolder forms of cliff and ravine, among which their foundations have been pitched. There is a certain gloomy indistinctness in the.

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