Brougham And His Early Friends: Letters to James Loch, 1798-1809 2
Brougham And His Early Friends: Letters to James Loch, 1798-1809 2
Henry Brougham Brougham And Vaux
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The remains of Antiquity are very fine, but after you have seen those which are intrinsically so, it is absurd to run about to every spot where something was once performed, merely be- cause that spot recalls an association, and gives a feast of sentiment Once or twice this will take, but no longer, for one spot of this kind is exactly the repetition of another. There is also in the remains of genius them- selves, a certain similarity which to a sensible person conveniently abridges the task or... the pleasure of surveying them. The modern part of Rome beyond all doubt is the most wonderful, both for beauty and grandeur; on that I determined to feast, and so to take my meals as to feed at a small expence of time and not to suffer from reple- tion. For this purpose I resolved to reject as much as possible the trash, and next, to in- terrupt my repast, a recipe which I never HENRY BROUGHAM 181 found to fail for saving a vast portion of time by keeping the attention and curiosity alive. After seeing the ancient parts of Rome and the most part of the modern, therefore, I set out for Naples with the courier, and there, indeed, I was highly gratified, not only [by] the eruption of Vesuvius, but by the manners, music, luxuries, and climate of the place.
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