Portion of Life is a Dream in the original metre.
In 1856 he publishedĪ valuable essay on Calderón, with a translation of a His advocacy of a revised translation of the New Testament (1858) helped promote another great national project. Impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary. Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first Another great service toĮnglish philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, On Promote the historical study of the English tongue. All have gone through numerous editions and have contributed much to Past and Present (1855) and A Select Glossary of English Words It was followed by two little volumes of similar character- English Imagination laid up"-a truth enforced by a number of most apposite Himself, was to show that in words, even taken singly, "there areīoundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and Pupils of the Diocesan Training School, Winchester.
They can also tell us, gazetteer-style, exactly where we can get below and see the strange world which they depict, whom to ask for permission, and which of the public service authorities organizes trips underground.In 1851 he established his fame as a philologist by The Study of Words, originally delivered as lectures to the The authors trace the routes taken by man and nature, and enable us to follow them from the comfort of our armchairs. Drawing extensively from the literature and visual archives of the underworld, London under London traces the history of the tunnellers and borers who have pierced the ground beneath the city for close on two thousand years. Layer upon layer, they run their urgent errands, carrying people, delivering water, removing sewage, passing currents, sending messages, conveying parcels. These lifelines of the metropolis twist and turn hidden beneath the pavements of the city - fifteen hundred miles of Neo-Gothic sewers, a hundred miles of Neolithic rivers, eighty-two miles of tube tunnels, twelve miles of government tunnels and hundreds of thousands of miles of cables and pipes. Beneath the familiar surface lies an unknown city, a Hades of buried and forgotten rivers, sunken sewers, underground railways, pipes and passages, tubes and tunnels, crypts and cellars.
The London we know and see is only the tip of the iceberg. Clearly, metropolitan man is burrowing as actively as ever. A new section covers: the pioneering deep level water main 80 kilometres in length, much longer even than the Channel Tunnel new power tunnels and the enormous substation beneath Leicester Square new underground railways glass fibre communication and much more. One of the most popular books on London (it has reprinted six times since it was first published in 1984) London under London has now been updated to take into account the latest subterranean developments.
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