The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.


Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times (ed. 1844)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York...

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York...

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York...

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York...