. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . appy earth, and as the earth drew near, this child, who had comeforth from the starry deeps to comfort me, threw upon me a look of gentlestpity and of unutterable love, so that in my heart I had a sudden rapture of joysuch as passes all understanding, and I awoke in the tumult of my happiness. I avk^oke, but my happiness survived my dream, and I exclaimed,— Oh, howbeautiful is death ! seeing that we die in a world of life and of creation withoutend ; and I blessed God for my life upon earth, but much more for the life inthose unseen depths of the uni
. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . appy earth, and as the earth drew near, this child, who had comeforth from the starry deeps to comfort me, threw upon me a look of gentlestpity and of unutterable love, so that in my heart I had a sudden rapture of joysuch as passes all understanding, and I awoke in the tumult of my happiness. I avk^oke, but my happiness survived my dream, and I exclaimed,— Oh, howbeautiful is death ! seeing that we die in a world of life and of creation withoutend ; and I blessed God for my life upon earth, but much more for the life inthose unseen depths of the universe which are emptied of all but the supremereality, and where no earthly life nor perishable hope can enter. DE QUINCEY. (from the GERMAN OF JEAN PAUL RICHTER.) [ MS ] cKoo:) fo x^ee ©y/ex^fmiax^fer oKfi^ev/, No one can understand Westminster Abbey, and few can realize its beautiesin a single visit. Too many tombs will produce the same satiety as too manypictures. There can be no advantage, and there will be less pleasure, in filling. the brain with a hopeless jumble, in which kings and statesmen, warriors,ecclesiastics, and poets are tossing about together. Even those who give theshortest time to their London sight-seeing, should not pay less than three visits THE REPRISAL. 149 to the Abbey. On the first, unwearied by detail, let them have the luxury ofenjoying the architectural beauties of the place, with the general view of theinterior, the chapter-house, cloisters, and their monastic surroundings. On thesecond, let them study the glorious chapels which surround the choir, and whichcontain nearly all the tombs of antiquarian or artistic interest. On the third,let them labour as far as they can through the mass of monuments which crowdthe transepts and nave, which are often mere cenotaphs, and which almostalways derive their only interest from those they commemorate. These threevisits may enable visitors to see Westminster Abbey, but it will require manymore to knozu it
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