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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ofhis flight from Whitehall, and purposely let it fiiUinto the water as he passed across the river. INIr.Jesse adds that not long afterwards the seal wasrecovered by a fisherman and restored to theGovernment. The following beautiful sonnet, composed byWilliam Wordsworth in 1803, gives us a lifelikepicture of London as seen from the river at West-minster at sunrise on a summer morning :— Earth has not anything to show more fair .Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty ;This city now doth like a garment wearThe beauty of the morning j silent, bare.Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie,Open unto the fields and to the sky,All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour valley, rock, or hill;Neer saw I—never felt—a calm so deep.The river glideth at its own sweet will.Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep,And all that mighty heart is lying stilL OLD AND NEW LONDON. (The tkaiiieS.
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Al COVES OF win WF.STMTNSTEP. TIRIDGE. CHAPTER XXXVIIL THE RIVE R T H / M E S (contimted). Sr.ch a stream doth runBy lovely London as beneath the sunTheres not ihe like.—C/i/ B.t.iad. Poetic Effusions in Honour of the Thames— Swan-uppuig —River Waifs and Dead Houses—Watermen and Wherr^inen—Authorised Rate,of Charges made by Watermen—Doggjtts Coat and Badge—Thomas Doggett as an Actor ^ Miss Bengers Apostrophies of Taylor, the■■ WatafrPoet —The Thames as the Great Medium of Conveyance—State Processions—Amusments on the Thames—Bathing in theThames—Condition ol the River in 1874—Depredations from iMerchant Vessels—Training-vessels for the Royal Navy and MerchantService—Mercantile Importance of the Thames. Of the London and Westminster of Chaucerstime, writes Mr. Matthew Browne in his pleasantwork, Chaucers England, there is little whichthe poet, however forewarned, would recognise ifhe were to return. The Thames, certainly, hewould scarcely know, with its

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