...grandeur of aspect lost. Seen from a height, or even from such open places as Westminster Bridge, London presents a forest of spires, steeples, and turrets,...knowledge that such large buildings have any existence. London possesses greater architectural beauties than foreigners are willing to allow : many of them...

...many of the streets of London by which it is greatly disfigured and all grandeur of aspect lost . . . with a few exceptions strangers may traverse the whole...knowledge that such large buildings have any existence.' Ruskin has said everything that its outside critics had left unsaid, and the average Londoner will...