Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
It was a fine February day, when we left the _Hôtel Dessin_ to embark for Dover. The quay was crowded with clamorous porters, while the _gendarmes_ had an eye to the police regulations, lest a stray rogue, more or less, might pass undetected between the two great capitals of E...
It was a fine February day, when we left the _Hôtel Dessin_ to embark for Dover. The quay was crowded with clamorous porters, while the _gendarmes_ had an eye to the police regu...
2. LETTER II.Early the following morning, on looking out of my window, I saw a gentleman in a scarlet coat, and a hunting-cap, mounting in the yard of the inn. He had been hunting the previo...
3. LETTER III.A London season lasts during the regular session of parliament, unless politics contrive to weary dissipation. Of course this rule is not absolute, as the two houses are sometim...
4. LETTER IV.I shall not entertain you with many cockney descriptions of “sights.” By this time England, in these particulars, is better understood with us, than in points much more essentia...
5. LETTER V.The ice once broken, visitors began to appear at my door, and since my last, I have been gradually looking nearer and nearer, at the part of the world which it is usual to call...
6. LETTER VI.If one, in the least in the world, were to judge from the invitations that lie on his table, during the season, he would be very apt to pronounce London an eating and drinking t...
7. LETTER VII.When we first arrived here from Paris, I was disposed to deny that the streets of London were as crowded as it is usual to pretend. My opinion was formed too soon. What was then...
8. LETTER VIII.London justly boasts of her squares and parks. The former are both more numerous and more beautiful than are to be found in any other town; and, while Vienna has its Prater, Par...
9. LETTER IX.Some favourable accidents have thrown me lately, more than I had a right to expect, in the circumstances under which I have visited England, into the society of the leading whig...
10. LETTER X.I remember that some five and twenty years ago, you and I had a discussion on the supposed comparative merits of parliament and congress, considering both strictly as legislativ...
11. LETTER XI.I was passing through Pall Mall, shortly after the town became so crowded, when I saw a mermaid combing her hair before a small mirror, as the crest on a chariot that stood at a...
12. LETTER XII.Although I had been several times at St. Stephen’s, I never, until quite lately, got into the House of Lords. A young connexion, who happens to be travelling in Europe, and myse...
13. LETTER XIII.Were the people of England, free from the prejudices of their actual situation and absolutely without a political organization, assembled to select a polity for their future gov...