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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... seemed , and my mind wandered to picture the lives of men who spend their time in writing books about women ; whether they were old or young , married or unmarried , red - nosed or hump - backed - anyhow , it was flattering , vaguely ...
... seemed , and my mind wandered to picture the lives of men who spend their time in writing books about women ; whether they were old or young , married or unmarried , red - nosed or hump - backed - anyhow , it was flattering , vaguely ...
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... seemed in a mass one mingled in another like the mosaic squares in a Roman pavement I had often heard of the worlds seven wonders in my reading days at school but I found in London alone thousands Octave took me to see most of the ...
... seemed in a mass one mingled in another like the mosaic squares in a Roman pavement I had often heard of the worlds seven wonders in my reading days at school but I found in London alone thousands Octave took me to see most of the ...
第 189 頁
... seemed to have been the pledge of a long fair - weather ; the premature sufferings which I had paid down , to have been accepted as a ransom for many years to come , as a price for long immunity from sorrow : and if again I walked in ...
... seemed to have been the pledge of a long fair - weather ; the premature sufferings which I had paid down , to have been accepted as a ransom for many years to come , as a price for long immunity from sorrow : and if again I walked in ...
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