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... The earthly paradise, a poem - Сторінка 3автори: William Morris - 1868Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 360 стор.
...to Morris, without the slightest inconsistency, to embark on a movement for making the world happy. 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... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 стор.
...to Morris, without the slightest inconsistency, to embark on a movement for making the world happy. 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... | |
| Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society - 1897 - 286 стор.
...of unity and repose too often disturbed in modern buildings. It is there, if anywhere, we may— ' Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,' even as our lost poet and craftsman, William Morris, bade us in the introduction to The Earthly Paradise.... | |
| William John Hardy - 1900 - 512 стор.
...thoroughfares picturesqueness itself. It needs no slight effort to recall the London of the last Plantagenets. Forget six counties over-hung with smoke ; Forget...bear Levantine staves Cut from the yew wood on the burnt up hill, And pointed jars that Greek hands toiled to fill, And treasured scanty spice from some... | |
| 1901 - 158 стор.
...Friars just within the walls. Looking at these we are reminded of the words of William Morris — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green " ; and still more of the verses of William Dunbar, who was living when this cut appeared — " Upon... | |
| London Topographical Society - 1901 - 162 стор.
...Friars just within the walls. Looking at these we are reminded of the words of William Morris — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green " ; and still more of the verses of William Dunbar, who was living when this cut appeared — " Upon... | |
| 1901 - 158 стор.
...Friars just within the walls. Looking at these we are reminded of the words of William Morris — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green " ; and still more of the verses of William Dunbar, who was living when this cut appeared — " Upon... | |
| James Benjamin Kenyon - 1901 - 266 стор.
...in our present "unexampled progress" is revealed in the following lines from The Earthly Paradise: Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. The root of Morris's socialism is to be found in the "terrible contrast presented by the life of the... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1901 - 442 стор.
...x -_" Forget six counties overhung with smoke, /, Forget the snorting steam and piston smoke, . . . And dream of London, small and white and clean. The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green." v : '* The socialistic Utopia depicted in his " News from Nowhere" (1890) is a regenerated Middle Age,... | |
| 1901 - 554 стор.
...followed the first edition of " Guenevere," glimpses of an earthly paradise in which the vision of a " London, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green," is still only the vision of a shadowy isle of bliss whose singer is not yet wedded to a definite ambition.... | |
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