His keen observation of everything new, strange, or

beautiful constantly suggested interesting trains of

* "Biographia Literaria."



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thought ; such as the views of Hogarth and art in this
last letter.
He further wrote : * " Our hotel has one great ad-
vantage for a stranger, by being near the market-
place, and the next neighbor of the huge church of St.
Nicholas, a church with shops and houses built up
against it, out of which wens and warts its high massy-
steeple rises, necklaced near the top with a round of large
gilt balls. A better pole-star could scarcely be desired.
