Karl Philipp Moritz

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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

— Karl Philipp Moritz

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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

— Karl Philipp Moritz

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

— Karl Philipp Moritz

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love…

— 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…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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

— Karl Philipp Moritz

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by…

— Karl Philipp Moritz