Read it through once

I mean to speak of only one of these many world-renowned buildings, the Taj Mahal, the most celebrated construction in the earth. I had read a great deal too much about it. I saw it in the daytime, I saw it in the moonlight, I saw it near at hand, I saw it from a distance; and I knew all the time, that of its kind it was the wonder of THE world, with no competitor now and no possible future competitor; and yet, it was not MY Taj. My Taj had been built by excitable literary people; it was solidly lodged in my head, and I could not blast it out.