LONDON

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1. Lo, where huge London, huger day by day,
   O'er six fair counties spreads it hideous sway!—ALFRED AUSTIN, The Golden Age

2. As I came down the Highgate Hill
   I met the sun's bravado,
   And saw below me, fold on fold
   Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,
   This London like a land of old,
   The land of Eldorado.—H. H. BASHFORD, Romance

3. London is the clearing-house the world.—JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

4. Let but thy wicked men from out thee go,
   And all the fools that crowd thee so,
   Even thou, who dost thy millions boast,
   A village less than Islington will grow,
   A solitude almost.—ABRAHAM COWLEY, Of Solitude

    

5. The finest thing in London is the Bobby;
   Benignant information is his hobby.—ARTHUR GUITERMAN, The Lyric Baedeker

6. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life

7. Oh London Town's a fine town, and London sights are rare,
   And London ale is right ale, and brisk's the London air.—JOHN MASEFIELD, London Town

8. Dear, damn'd, distracting town.—POPE, A Farewell to London

9. I hope to see London once ere I die.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
    At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
    Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.—SHELLEY