...ugliness of modern English commercial life in the romance of Storyland : — ' Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...clean, The clear Thames bordered by its garden green ; Think, that below the bridge green lapping waves Smite some few keels.' Sometimes the dreamer of...

...incident to the modern English town, as he felt it when he bade his London reader Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...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...

...Canterbury Tales. See: B. IV. I., and A. III. 2. I. ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. Forget six counties overhung with smoke ; Forget the snorting steam and...piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town * * * And dream of London small and white and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green...

...Farewell my book and my devotion.6 London was not then the unwieldy mass of buildings we know to-day, but, London, small, and white and clean; The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green,7 and a short walk took Chaucer away from the city into the meadows. More than once the...

...Paradise ' reveals a man who chose to live before he wrote. He invites us to ' Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...white, and clean. The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green ; ' and shows us Chaucer's London that he may recover for us the conditions of life which...

...o'erhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston-stroke, Forget the hideous spreading of the town ; Think rather of the pack-horse on the Down,...white and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green." WILLIAM MORRIS. TN venturing to put forth some remarks upon the possibilities •*•...

...the slightest inconsistency, to embark on a movement for making the world happy. Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...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...

...the slightest inconsistency, to embark on a movement for making the world happy. Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...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...

...itself. It needs no slight effort to recall the London of the last Plantagenets. Forget six counties over-hung with smoke ; Forget the snorting steam and...white and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. Think that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine...

...unexampled progress " is revealed in the following lines from The Earthly Paradise : Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and...white, and 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...