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A duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Thomas De Quincey

London Magazine

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Rainy days Sunday London

Author

Thomas De Quincey

Source

Confessions of an English Opium Eater London Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

De Quincey, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." The London Magazine, Sept. - Oct., 1821.

Current Citation

De Quincey, Thomas. "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings, edited by Robert Morrison. Oxford University Press, 2013.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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London

Speaker

Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 20 Sept. 1777.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Hell is a city much like London—
A populous and a smoky city.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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London Hell

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Peter Bell the Third

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Peter Bell the Third." The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Edward Moxon, 1839, pt. 3, st. 1.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Peter Bell the Third." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3, st. 1.

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli

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London

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Tancred: or, The New Crusade

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Tancred: or, The New Crusade. Vol. 3, London: Henry Colburn, 1847, bk. 5, ch. 5.

A foggy day in London Town
Had me low and had me down.
I viewed the morning with alarm.
The British Museum had lost its charm.

Ira Gershwin

A Foggy Day

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Topic

London Down days

Speaker

Jerry Halliday

Actor

Fred Astaire

Author

Ira Gershwin

Source

A Foggy Day A Damsel in Distress

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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"A Foggy Day in London Town." A Damsel in Distress. Directed by George Stevens, performed by Fred Astaire, RKO Radio Pictures, 1937.

Oh, London is a fine town,
A very famous city,
Where all the streets are paved with gold,
And all the maidens pretty.

George Colman the Younger

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London

Speaker

Dick Dowlas

Author

George Colman the Younger

Source

The Heir at Law

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1797 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Colman, George. The Heir at Law. 15 July 1797, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Colman, George. "The Heir at Law." The Plays of George Colman the Younger, edited by Peter Tasch. Vol. 2, Routledge, 2023, act 1, sc. 2.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

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London British empire

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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London

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Letter to Maria Gisborne

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 193.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 193.