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Allhallows, Bread Street.
ALLHALLOWS , BREAD STREET .
WE take this interesting paper from our contemporary the " Graphic , " and Ave have to thank the publisher for his most kind permission to use the plates , for which our readers and ourselves are equally grateful . We peruse Aveekly with great admiration that admirabl y edited and illustrated paper .
EW other towns in Europe present such striking contrasts to the view as does London , especially that part of this huge metropolis called " the City . " When one walks throu gh its crowded streets and lanes , blocked up with Avagons . 'horses plunging , men bawling , and boys whistling or howling the last popular melody execrably out of
tune , one is apt to conclude that peace must for ever have fled this Babel . But presently our steps are arrested by the sight of a small plot of ground enclosed within rusty iron railings , and shaded by a tree or two . In the midst of this little space a few soot-begrimed stone monuments stand up like prophets , their grey heads
sprinkled with ashes , and predict that all who are taking part in this hubbub will one day be laid to rest . Nor is it only in these quiet old City graveyards that peace seems to reign , for a little further on Ave come upon some old church looking- calml y doAvn upon the bustle around , —such a building , for instance , as Allhallows ' , Bread Street . Near the door of this church is a simple stone bearing an inscription . Let us read
it—It is certainly a little difficult to realise the fact that a poet —and he one of the sublimest thinkers of latter times — should have been born , lived , and died in the midst of this surging sea of noise and
unrest . It must , hoAvever , be remembered that in Milton's time our merchants , ay , even our " merchant princes , " thought it no disgrace to live over their counting houses ,
and the possession of a " commodious villa " at Barnes or a '' desirable family mansion at Bayswater was not considered an indispensable mark of solvency .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Allhallows, Bread Street.
ALLHALLOWS , BREAD STREET .
WE take this interesting paper from our contemporary the " Graphic , " and Ave have to thank the publisher for his most kind permission to use the plates , for which our readers and ourselves are equally grateful . We peruse Aveekly with great admiration that admirabl y edited and illustrated paper .
EW other towns in Europe present such striking contrasts to the view as does London , especially that part of this huge metropolis called " the City . " When one walks throu gh its crowded streets and lanes , blocked up with Avagons . 'horses plunging , men bawling , and boys whistling or howling the last popular melody execrably out of
tune , one is apt to conclude that peace must for ever have fled this Babel . But presently our steps are arrested by the sight of a small plot of ground enclosed within rusty iron railings , and shaded by a tree or two . In the midst of this little space a few soot-begrimed stone monuments stand up like prophets , their grey heads
sprinkled with ashes , and predict that all who are taking part in this hubbub will one day be laid to rest . Nor is it only in these quiet old City graveyards that peace seems to reign , for a little further on Ave come upon some old church looking- calml y doAvn upon the bustle around , —such a building , for instance , as Allhallows ' , Bread Street . Near the door of this church is a simple stone bearing an inscription . Let us read
it—It is certainly a little difficult to realise the fact that a poet —and he one of the sublimest thinkers of latter times — should have been born , lived , and died in the midst of this surging sea of noise and
unrest . It must , hoAvever , be remembered that in Milton's time our merchants , ay , even our " merchant princes , " thought it no disgrace to live over their counting houses ,
and the possession of a " commodious villa " at Barnes or a '' desirable family mansion at Bayswater was not considered an indispensable mark of solvency .