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

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

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.

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.

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

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 which they are beheld.

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