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Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks
Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r Walterswords when he said of the scene now presented, A nobler contrast therecan hardly exist than that of the huge city, dark with the smoke of ages,and groanmg with the various sounds of active industry or idle revel, andthe lofty and craggy hill, silent and solitary as the grave ; one exhibitingtlie full tide of existence, pressing and precipitating itself forward with theforce of an inundation ; the other resembling some time-worn anchorite,whose life i)asses as silent and unobserved as the slender rill, which escapesunheard, and scarce seen, from the fountain of his patron saint. The cityresembles the busy temple where the modern Comus and Mammon hoUl theircourt, and thousands sacrifice ease, independence, and virtue itself at theshrine; the misty and lonely mountain seems as a throne to the majesticbut terrible genius of feudal times, where the same divinities dispensedcoronets and domains to those who had h.eads to devise, and arms to execute,bold enterprises. I3T <^1<D
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