[At Home And Abroad by Margaret Fuller Ossoli]@TWC D-Link bookAt Home And Abroad CHAPTER I 3/17
It is very sublime, giving the effect of a spiritual repetition through all the spheres. When I first came, I felt nothing but a quiet satisfaction.
I found that drawings, the panorama, &c.
had given me a clear notion of the position and proportions of all objects here; I knew where to look for everything, and everything looked as I thought it would. Long ago, I was looking from a hill-side with a friend at one of the finest sunsets that ever enriched, this world.
A little cowboy, trudging along, wondered what we could be gazing at.
After spying about some time, he found it could only be the sunset, and looking, too, a moment, he said approvingly, "That sun looks well enough"; a speech worthy of Shakespeare's Cloten, or the infant Mercury, up to everything from the cradle, as you please to take it. Even such a familiarity, worthy of Jonathan, our national hero, in a prince's palace, or "stumping," as he boasts to have done, "up the Vatican stairs, into the Pope's presence, in my old boots," I felt here; it looks really _well enough_, I felt, and was inclined, as you suggested, to give my approbation as to the one object in the world that would not disappoint. But all great expression, which, on a superficial survey, seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes, after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
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