 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...  Introduction to the Study of English Literature - Pagina 135door Vida Dutton Scudder - 1914 - 542 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1902 - 742 pagina’s
...even go so far as to add that, to render a Saga worthily into an English drama, prose or poetic, one must " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget...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 pagina’s
...squalid grime which is incident to the modern English town, as he felt it when he bade his London reader Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...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 pagina’s
...heard : there they died, when they had dwelt there certain years, much honoured of the strange people. FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves,... | |
 | William Morris - 1868 - 700 pagina’s
...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...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves,... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pagina’s
...narrated. The time is indicated in the Prologue : it is the reign of Edward III. — the ago of Chaucer: Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels mat bear Levantine staves,... | |
 | William Morris - 1869 - 708 pagina’s
...heard : there they died, when they had dwelt there certain years, much honoured of the strange people. FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...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 pagina’s
...heard : there they 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 piston stroke. 1 Forget the spreading of the hideous town ; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream... | |
 | William Morris - 1870 - 196 pagina’s
...what the search for the Earthly Paradise must be? — we are wafted away into pure romance : — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke. Forget the...white, 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... | |
 | William Morris - 1871 - 444 pagina’s
...what the search for the Earthly Paradise must be? — we are wafted away into pure romance : — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...white, 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... | |
 | William Morris - 1871 - 446 pagina’s
...there certain years, much honored of the strange people. "F7ORGET six counties overhung with smoke, JP Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves,... | |
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