Romance has lived too long upon this river « The Toynbee convector

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

When one talks of the Thames docks, 'beauty' is a vain word, but romance has lived too long upon this river not to have thrown a mantle of glamour upon its banks.” Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea (1906). ..

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