At any nearer view the grandeur of St.Peter's hides itself behind the immensity of its separate parts,--so that we see only the front, only the sides, only the pillared length and loftiness of the portico, and not the mighty whole.

But at this distance the entire outline of the world's cathedral, as well as that of the palace of the world's chief priest, is taken in at once.

In such remoteness, moreover, the imagination is not debarred from lending its assistance, even while we have the reality before our eyes, and helping the weakness of human sense to do justice to so grand an object.

It requires both faith and fancy to enable us to feel, what is nevertheless so true, that yonder, in front of the purple outline of hills, is the grandest edifice ever built by man, painted against God's loveliest sky.
After contemplating a little while a scene which their long residence in Rome had made familiar to them, Kenyon and Hilda again let their glances fall into the piazza at their feet.

They there beheld Miriam, who had just entered the Porta del Popolo, and was standing by the obelisk and fountain.