Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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Page 28
... streets , dotted with wretched huts and cabins of board and canvas and the gaunt skeletons of burnt churches . Over all towered the open roof and glassless windows of old St. Paul's , its beautiful portico rent in pieces . This ...
... streets , dotted with wretched huts and cabins of board and canvas and the gaunt skeletons of burnt churches . Over all towered the open roof and glassless windows of old St. Paul's , its beautiful portico rent in pieces . This ...
Page 109
... streets ; nothing but the sound of birds in the gardens , the echoing , unhurrying foot- steps of passers - by , the roll of market carts flooding in or out of the city with the tides of the encircling shire . Everywhere , as one ...
... streets ; nothing but the sound of birds in the gardens , the echoing , unhurrying foot- steps of passers - by , the roll of market carts flooding in or out of the city with the tides of the encircling shire . Everywhere , as one ...
Page 277
... streets almost deserted ; the aspect is that of an immense and a well- ordered cemetery . The few passers - by under their umbrellas , in the desert of squares and streets , have the look of uneasy spirits who have risen from their ...
... streets almost deserted ; the aspect is that of an immense and a well- ordered cemetery . The few passers - by under their umbrellas , in the desert of squares and streets , have the look of uneasy spirits who have risen from their ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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