London in Poetry and ProseAnna Adams Enitharmon, 2003 - 205 頁 This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive, liberating, crowded, lonely, addictive, and green-and-gardened, London is a microcosm of the World. These words, from Anna Adams Foreword, give a taste of the breadth of subject-matter and tone to be enjoyed in this magnificent illustrated anthology. Writing from the Middle Ages to the present is divided into themes including The Weather in the Streets, The Poor and the Rich, The Countryman in Town, The Recent Wars and unavoidably London Transport ." |
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第 1 到 3 筆結果,共 23 筆
第 71 頁
... poor , crying outcasts still not even now quite shadows of the past Gone the rookeries of Clerkenwell or St. Giles Gone ' the Nicol ' or ' the Jago ' from the sour and yeasty East End replaced by monstrous moonlit mansions tenements ...
... poor , crying outcasts still not even now quite shadows of the past Gone the rookeries of Clerkenwell or St. Giles Gone ' the Nicol ' or ' the Jago ' from the sour and yeasty East End replaced by monstrous moonlit mansions tenements ...
第 72 頁
... poor man , are expressions of pity , but pity alloyed with contempt . No one properly contemns a Beggar . Poverty is a com- parative thing , and each degree of it is mocked by its ' neighbour grice . ' Its poor rents and comings - in ...
... poor man , are expressions of pity , but pity alloyed with contempt . No one properly contemns a Beggar . Poverty is a com- parative thing , and each degree of it is mocked by its ' neighbour grice . ' Its poor rents and comings - in ...
第 202 頁
... poor , is one of his best - known satires . In it he suggests that the babies of the poor should be fattened to feed the rich . It would be ' innocent , cheap , easy , effectual , ' he says , and a logical conclusion to the callousness ...
... poor , is one of his best - known satires . In it he suggests that the babies of the poor should be fattened to feed the rich . It would be ' innocent , cheap , easy , effectual , ' he says , and a logical conclusion to the callousness ...
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