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LONDON : AN AMERICAN'S IMPRESSION . An early spring day : a soft rain falling , the clear drops gliding over the young unformed leaves and the green grass almost without touching them ; an overcast sky , grey and brooding , yet luminous ...
LONDON : AN AMERICAN'S IMPRESSION . An early spring day : a soft rain falling , the clear drops gliding over the young unformed leaves and the green grass almost without touching them ; an overcast sky , grey and brooding , yet luminous ...
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9 hideous stamp which nineteenth - century industrialism put upon London is gradually disappearing : the slums are passing ; the narrow , filthy public - houses overflowing with flushed men and toothless women , and where little ...
9 hideous stamp which nineteenth - century industrialism put upon London is gradually disappearing : the slums are passing ; the narrow , filthy public - houses overflowing with flushed men and toothless women , and where little ...
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It was he who gave me the first inkling of the soul of London . It was summer , hot and sultry , when London is least of all like its true self — a city on the I had not yet lost the restlessness of the New World ; I was keen and eager ...
It was he who gave me the first inkling of the soul of London . It was summer , hot and sultry , when London is least of all like its true self — a city on the I had not yet lost the restlessness of the New World ; I was keen and eager ...
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