...these we are reminded of the words of William Morris — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...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...

...these we are reminded of the words of William Morris — " Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...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...

...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,...

...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....

...opening lines of "The prologue": "Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Borget the snorting stea-a and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous...rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of Condon, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by the gardens green; Think, that below...

...the one man of genius who has ever ruled in England, remain to this day. CHAPTER II RIVERS AND FORDS And dream of London, small and white and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. The Earthly Paradise. THE city of London, when the Roman garrison was withdrawn from its walls, occupied...

...prologue to the " Earthly Paradise " with the words : — Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town. In one of his art lectures he speaks of machines that " have been so used that they have driven all...

...certain years, much honoured of the strange people. T?ORGET six counties overhung with smoke, -•• Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...bordered by its gardens green ; Think, that below the bridge green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves, Cut from the yew wood...

...history. Imagine we are in the days of Edward the Confessor. ' Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green.' From the West of England the entrance to London was by a single road, the old Roman military road known...

...again in a day long dead. We must, with William Morris, — Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. When this leap into the dark backward and abysm of time has been accomplished, many of the comforts...