Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay at ...all. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city ...more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strong be thy wallis that about the standis; Wise be the people that within the dwellis;... Fresh is thy ryver with his lusty strandis; Blith be thy chirches, wele sownyng be thy bellis; Riche be thy merchauntis in substance that excellis Fair be thy wives, right lovesom, white and small; Clere be thy virgyns, lusty under kellis: London, thou art the flour of Cities all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
London, thou art of townes A per se. Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,... Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght; Of most delectable lusty ladies bright; Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall; Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght: London, thou art the flour of Cities allLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So was produced this tragedy In a far tower of ivory... Where, O young men, late in the night All you who drink light and stroke the air Come back, seeking the night, and cry To strict Rapunzel to let down her hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and pr...osper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »