 | 1902 - 742 pagine
...worthily into an English drama, prose or poetic, one must " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston 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 pagine
...English town, as he felt it when he bade his London reader Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston 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... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pagine
...Prologue : it is the reign of Edward III. — the ago of Chaucer: Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels mat bear Levantine staves, Cnt from the yew wood on the burnt-up hill, And pointed Jars that Greek... | |
 | William Morris - 1869 - 708 pagine
...there certain years, much honoured of the strange people. FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke. Forget...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 - 1870 - 196 pagine
...must be? — we are wafted away into pure romance : — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke. Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...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 pagine
...must be? — we are wafted away into pure romance : — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...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 - 442 pagine
...Paradise must be?— we are wafted away into pure romance : — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dreum of London, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its garden green ; Think,... | |
 | Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1872 - 334 pagine
...about a yet more ancient England, which must come in here — Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam, and piston stroke ; Forget the spreading of the hideous town, Think only of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small and white and clean, The clear Thames... | |
 | William Morris - 1873 - 192 pagine
...must be? — we are wafted away into pure romance ; — " Forget six counties overhung- with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...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 - 1873 - 366 pagine
...there certain years, much honoured of the strange people. I~~* ORGET six counties overhung with smoke. Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town ; Th1nk rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small, and white, and clean, The... | |
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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 its... 
