All the things that assumed to be of recent structure or invention were as nothing against the dense past, which overwhelmed them with the sense of a world elsewhere outlived.

In Nuremberg it is not the quaint or the picturesque that is exceptional; it is the matter-of-fact and the commonplace.

Here, more than anywhere else, you are steeped in the gothic spirit which expresses itself in a Teutonic dialect of homely sweetness, of endearing caprice, of rude grotesqueness, but of positive grace and beauty almost never.

It is the architectural speech of a strenuous, gross, kindly, honest people's fancy; such as it is it was inexhaustible, and such as it is it was bewitching for the travellers.
They could hardly wait till they had supper before plunging into the ancient town, and they took the first tram-car at a venture.

It was a sort of transfer, drawn by horses, which delivered them a little inside of the city gate to a trolley-car.