Capitolo 42
the knowledge of three days. You remember to the American that went
to look at Niagara, and it did one note that it approves in his/her memorandum
you book to say that he really found him/it a very elegant cataract.'
'Oh, but you have to form at least of his opinion, for first the sight,'
Cried Edie; 'You cannot help having an impression of a place from
the first moment, even if you don't have a judgment on him, you can Him
now? I really think it overcomes my anticipations, the Mr. The Breton,
what a pleasant surprise is always. Venice fell under their; Florence
it came above only to them; but Oxford, I think, it really overcomes them.'
'We have three beautiful cities in Britain', it said Berkeley. ('As if
he is a Welsh Triad', Herbert suggested her Breton, parenthetically.)
'Torquay, Oxford, Edinburgh. Torquay is every nature, breakdown from that that
I won't call art; Oxford is every art, it overlapped on a swamp that
I won't call nature; Edinburgh is nature and art, while working beautiful
harmoniously together, to constitute an unique and delicious portrait.'
'Only as Naples, Venice and Heidelberg', said Edie, mean to
her; but Berkeley quickly took to the words as her it told them.
'Yes', he responded; 'a very good parallel, only Oxford has a trifle
more nature around him that Venice. The lagoon, without the buildings,
it would simply be horrendous; the Oseney flattens, without the universities,
it would not be worse anything that only dull.'
'We owe a great quantity', said Ernest, looking fixed out toward the quadrangle,
'to the mass forgotten to operate humanity that stacked all those
blocks of shapeless stone in the beautiful forms for us who come later
to admire and to adore. I often wonder me, when I sit here in Berkeley
window-does to sit, and you look through the quad at the pinnacles carved on
the Founder's Tower there, if some of us can ever hope to go away
behind to our successors some legacy to entirely comparable to that
leaves each other from those old mediaeval anonymous masons. It is an a lot of saddening
thought that us for that everybody that these beautiful things have been put