London Films and Certain Delightful English TownsHarper & brothers, 1911 - 528 pagina's |
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... past yellowing and reddening vineyards and orchards of peach and persimmon . If there are any ascertainable touches of poetry in it , I am sure they are attributable to the encyclopædists rather than to me , and I freely make over to ...
... past yellowing and reddening vineyards and orchards of peach and persimmon . If there are any ascertainable touches of poetry in it , I am sure they are attributable to the encyclopædists rather than to me , and I freely make over to ...
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... past computation . Yet if one were as willing to be honest as one is willing to be graphic , one would allow that probably the weather on the other side of the Atlantic was then behaving with quite as swift and reckless caprice . The ...
... past computation . Yet if one were as willing to be honest as one is willing to be graphic , one would allow that probably the weather on the other side of the Atlantic was then behaving with quite as swift and reckless caprice . The ...
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... past , but only a present to retrieve ; though perhaps a present like hers is enough . She is also one less architecturally than London ; she is two- thirds as splendid , as grand , as impressive . In fact , if I more closely examine my ...
... past , but only a present to retrieve ; though perhaps a present like hers is enough . She is also one less architecturally than London ; she is two- thirds as splendid , as grand , as impressive . In fact , if I more closely examine my ...
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... past the dim cliffs and pinnacles , and the lower banks which the lesser buildings form , is such that the highest tide of Broadway or Fifth Avenue seems a scanty ebb beside it . The swelling and towering omnibuses , the huge trucks and ...
... past the dim cliffs and pinnacles , and the lower banks which the lesser buildings form , is such that the highest tide of Broadway or Fifth Avenue seems a scanty ebb beside it . The swelling and towering omnibuses , the huge trucks and ...
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... past . Perhaps , therefore , I felt safe in so largely leaving the English past to the English pres- ent , and , having in London long ago satisfied that hunger for the old which the new American brings with him to Europe , I now went ...
... past . Perhaps , therefore , I felt safe in so largely leaving the English past to the English pres- ent , and , having in London long ago satisfied that hunger for the old which the new American brings with him to Europe , I now went ...
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Abbey afternoon American asked Bath Battersea Park beautiful began Belgravia better boat bolero hat Bunhill Fields cathedral charm church coming course crowd dress edifice effect England English everywhere Exeter eyes fact fancy fashion feel Folkestone friends gardens girls going grass Hampton Court hansom imagined interest Jane Austen keep King lady leave less Little Brington live lodgings London look Lyminge Malmsey Malvern mansions mediæval monument morning never night once one's palace Park passed past perhaps pleasure Plymouth poor present pretty Pulteney Street reader Roman round scene season seemed sense shore social sojourn sort Southampton station stone streets streets of Mayfair Sunday suppose table d'hôte Thames things thought took Tower town train trees verger walk walls whitebait Whitechapel women York young