The Quest of The Simple Life

Download or read book The Quest of The Simple Life written by W. J. Dawson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a considerable number of years I had been a resident in London, which city I regarded alternately as my Paradise and my House of Bondage. I am by no means one of those who are always ready to fling opprobrious epithets at London, such as 'a pestilent wen,' a cluster of 'squalid villages,' and the like; on the contrary, I regard London as the most fascinating of all cities, with the one exception of that city of Eternal Memories beside the Tiber. But even Horace loved the olive-groves of Tivoli more than the far-ranged splendours of the Palatine; and I may be pardoned if an occasional vision of green fields often left my eye insensitive to metropolitan attractions.