Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.


Passages from the English Note-books [of Nathaniel Hawthorne.] (ed. 1872)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together,...

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together,...

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together,...

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together,...