It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really... want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled wit...h men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word of the moment is "classless," whether applied to Cockney Society photographers or sprigs of the aristocracy running littl...e bistros round the corner. Mick Jagger, alternately slurring yob and lisping lordling, is classlessness apotheosised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for fli...nging a pot of paint in the public's face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This canal, which is the oldest in the country, and has even an antique look beside the more modern railroads, is fed by the Conco...rd, so that we were still floating on its familiar waters. It is so much water which the river lets for the advantage of commerce. There appeared some want of harmony in its scenery, since it was not of equal date with the woods and meadows through which it is led, and we missed the conciliatory influence of time on land and water; but in the lapse of ages, Nature will recover and indemnify herself, and gradually plant fit shrubs and flowers along its borders. Already the kingfisher sat upon a pine over the water, and the bream and pickerel swam below. Thus all works pass directly out of the hands of the architect into the hands of Nature, to be perfected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »