Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
This seems to be a thing that all exclaim against, and but few see. The phrase is never varied--a sure sign of lack of experience. One cries, 'Oh, the London Sunday!' and another, 'It must be too dreadful for foreigners!' and before the topic disappears something yet vaguer ha...
Knowing how intimate is the sense of smell, one might think that the absence of the scent of the earth might account for all the deep difference of London. But it is not so; for...
2. Part 2And yet the artificial climate of London is at its best when it is very obvious, and when it has strong scenes of sunset or storm to deal with. The time when it is insufferable...
1. Part 1This seems to be a thing that all exclaim against, and but few see. The phrase is never varied--a sure sign of lack of experience. One cries, 'Oh, the London Sunday!' and anothe...
4. Part 4The delicate fire, that plays and vanishes elsewhere, but cannot vanish in London, has nowhere else so gross and dead a following. Even in the north, where the factory makes a d...