Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritzwas a German author, editor and essayist of the Sturm und Drang, late enlightenment, and classicist periods, influencing early German Romanticism as well. He led a life as a hatter's apprentice, teacher, journalist, literary critic, professor of art and linguistics, and member of both of Berlin's academies...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 September 1756
CountryGermany
cities perfect funeral
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.
next-day purpose rising
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
views imagination sides
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
sorry towers behinds
I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
journey should-have house
I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.