With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3

With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3

To the ordinary eye the moon and stars have at least prettiness, perhaps grandeur. To the trained astronomer, and the contemplative poet, the mighty firmament overwhelms the mind with the sense of human inability to grasp the vast. Knowing and loving the features and characteristics of London as a lover those of his mistress, it can be imagined how such a one despairs of doing justice, in a brief space, either to his subject or his own sane enthusiasm. He would fain impart his knowledge, insight, and what glimmerings of romantic fancy may add charm to the prosy exposition, but the showmans harangue is received as art without heart. London is a hundred captivating sights and themes for our hundred capacities and moods. You go to it the first time with the childs enviable eye-delight in novelty, and are lucky if in a week you are not eye-sore, dazed, and jaded with the very monotony of new scenes and blurred impressions. You wisely fly to the lovely country lanes for restful change, and come back with new eyes and a clean slate. Then the mysterious quality which lifts visible London into the London of real romance and realizable [Pg 6]antiquity dawns upon the mind. A third exploration reveals its almost omniscient and omnipotent headship as for three centuries the worlds centre for the intellectual and material forces that have so largely built up our civilization. Continued observation brings other and endless aspects of the indescribable city, which is no city, but a Chinese puzzle of separately whirling worlds within each other. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 35632
Author: Leigh, Oliver Herbrand Gordon
Release Date: Mar 19, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Leigh, Oliver Herbrand Gordon , Morris, Charles, 1833-1922