Capitolo 81
footboard and a shrivelled the old woman in; half the great one
houses, blacken with smoke in London, hole the great funereal hatchments;
every seemed insolent, and the most insolent structures in
the world both the Real Change and the Bank of England. In
November, 1858 London anchors it was enormous, but it was the London of
the eighteenth century that an American felt and hated.
Education must be turned back. Adams, a boy could not guess yet
as intensely intimate this London dirt was becoming to him as
a man but him you/he/she could still conceive him less returning to him
fifty years later, noticing to every turn as the great city
it grew smaller as it doubled in ransom; more convenient as it quadrupled his
wealth; less imperial as his/her widened empire; less honorable as it
tried to be civil. He liked better when he hated him. Education
started at the end, or it would perhaps end to the beginning. So far
you/he/she had remained in the eighteenth century and the next footstep he/she took
it back to the sixteenth one. He crossed to Antwerp. As the Baron Osy
vaporized on the Scheldt in the morning fogs, a travelling ribbon on
bridge started to play, and farmers' groups, working along the
fields, allowed to fall their utensils to connect in to dance. Ostade and
Teniers is as very alive as them they were never, and also the Duke
of Alva anchors it was at home. The thirteenth-century cathedral
it towered above of a sixteenth-century mass of tiled roofs, while ending
suddenly in walls and a panorama that were not changed. The taste
some city was often, rich, mature, as a sweet wine; it was
mediaeval, so that Rubens seemed modern; it was one of the
tastes stronger and fuller than you/they have ever touched the young one
palate; but he was able well as you/he/she has drunk out his/her excitement in old
Malmsey, for the whole education he got from him. Also in art, one
you/he/she cannot start really with Cathedral of Antwerp and the Descent from the
You cross. He became only drunk on his/her emotions, and it had to get then
you moderate how he was able better. He was very sober when he saw Antwerp