Capitolo 54
the most greater part of English you/they have had their senses and so dull understandings on
this problem, that they doesn't know what is wanted to really say from a city, or a
excellent city, when they sees one. And he/she doesn't suppose it is because London is
in Britain and these other cities out of him that I make these comments:
for Bath an excellent city is, Edinburgh is an excellent city, Glasgow protects and
Newcastle is city, while London anchors it is one dispersing himself/herself/itself, while he/she is sitting in decomposed way,
invertebrate village, incipient, excessively grown. I am as free, I hope, from
anti-patriotic as from patriotic prejudice. The Tall Road to Oxford,
Road of Milsom in Bath, Principles Road in Edinburgh, those are every fine
roads that would also attract attention in France or Germany. But the
Strand, Piccadilly, Regent Strada Road in Oxford--the good God, delivers us!
A more _caveat_s as to my meaning. When I quote among the true cities
Brussels, Antwerp and Monk of Baviera that I am not thinking about the treasures of art
those beautiful places contain; that is another and together taller
question. City supreme in this thick respect you linger behind far to others of
I lead the importance--the delay behind to in those external characteristics and that general
architectural effectiveness that exactly entitles us to tell a breadth
feels, "This is an excellent city." Florence, contains for example more
treasures of art in a small space that some other city of Europe; still
Florence, although undoubtedly a city, and also an excellent city, has not to be
compared in this respect, I don't say with Venice or Brussels, but it equalize
with Monk of Baviera or Milan. On the other hand London it contains far more
treasures of art in his/her way that Boston, Massachusetts; but Boston is a
beautiful, it well-built, regular city, while London--well, I will spare her
the further repetition of the minced evident truth that London is a bleak
village. In a word, the point I am trying to reveal here that a