FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town ; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by... Browning and Whitman: A Study in Democracy - Page 11by Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1893 - 145 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1902 - 742 pages
...that, to render a Saga worthily into an English drama, prose or poetic, one must " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town," and carry our minds back from the complexities of the present to an age of comparatively simple faiths... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 pages
...incident to the modern English town, as he felt it when he bade his London reader Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town. He had spent the prime of his years in trying to persuade people to love, and seek, and make things... | |
| William Morris - 1868 - 700 pages
...died, when they had dwelt there certain years, much honoured of the strange people. FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine... | |
| William Morris - 1868 - 700 pages
...there certain years, much honoured of the strange people. T^ORGET six counties overhung with smoke, JL Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine... | |
| 1869 - 514 pages
...indicated in the Prologue : it is the reign of Edward III. — the ago of Chaucer: Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and...white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels mat bear Levantine... | |
| William Morris - 1869 - 708 pages
...died, when they had dwelt there certain years, much honoured of the strange people. FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...the down, And dream of London, small, and white, and c)?£n. The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping... | |
| William Morris - 1869 - 692 pages
...strange people. FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke. 1 Forget the spreading of the hideous town ; Think rather...white, and clean. The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine... | |
| William Morris - 1870 - 196 pages
...the Earthly Paradise must be? — we are wafted away into pure romance : — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke. Forget the snorting steam and...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its garden green ; Think, that below bridge the green, lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves,... | |
| William Morris - 1871 - 444 pages
...the Earthly Paradise must be? — we are wafted away into pure romance : — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its garden green ; Think, that below bridge the green, lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves,... | |
| William Morris - 1871 - 446 pages
...there certain years, much honored of the strange people. "F7ORGET six counties overhung with smoke, JP Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine... | |
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