london-with-the-many-sins

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These are thy pleasures, O London-with-the-many-sins! for these may Keswick and her giant brood go hang!" And again to Wordsworth, in 1830, "Let no native Londoner imagine that health, and rest, and innocent occupation, interchange of converse sweet, and recreative study, can make the country anything better than altogether odious and detestable."

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864