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they as You rises on the hill; the north of excellent sight toward Sainte
De of Marie Schaarbeck; the beautiful ones are Repented of Royale, it limited from that fascinating
Parc; the unequalleds extend of the it Repents of the some de Regence, while starting from the
Puts Royale with Godfrey of Broth, and ending with the imposing mass
of the Palais de Executes. It is to me a matter for mixed surprise and
humiliation that so many English can look at year after year to that
glorious road--perhaps the most excellent in the world--and he/she anchors he/she never thinks to
them, not "we weakly imitate some small part of this in ours
Rich London, ugly, intransigent?"
I say to American that come always to Europe: "When you go to England,
doesn't see our cities, but sees our country. Our country is anything
unequalled in the world: while our cities!--in every way, holds away well from
London!"
With the solitary one and not very bright exception of the embankment,
there is not a road to London where one could take an extraneous to admire
the architecture. You compare that record with the new Avenues in
Antwerp, where serious study every house is worth almost: or with the
You encircle to eau de cologne (to hold near house the whole duration), where one can see
whole file of German houses of Renaissance of extraordinary interest. Thing
road in London can be mentioned in this side of side respect with
Republic Avenue or Light of signaling Road in Boston; with Avenue of Euclid in
Cleveland, Ohio; with the superior end of fifth Avenue, New York; no, also
with the Street new Rome in Genoa? Because it is it that us English you/he/she cannot get on
the King's Road to Brighton anything that weakly draws near that splendid
maritime forehead on the Digue to Ostend or those white and coquettish villas that
does Anglais flank the des of Walk to Nice? The withering in London seems
lies on Southern England.
Paris seems the capital of a world empire. London, looks as
a neglected and shapeless suburb, permission to grow from accident however. And