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...piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes...unintelligible as any dream. Hot springs and fiery erup. tions, the usual attendants upon earthquakes, lent their contributions of confusion to the scene....

...piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes...attendants upon earthquakes, lent their contributions oi confusion to the scene. Boiling water hissed and heaved within dilapidated walls ; whence, also,...

...piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes...mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream. . . . He is like and unlike Balzac in his passion for ' interiors,' and explores the soul, as he records...

...piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes...mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream. . . . He is like and unlike Balzac in his passion for ' interiors,' and explores the soul, as he records...

...piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes...mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream. . . . He is like and unlike Balzac in his passion for ' interiors,' and explores the soul, as he records...

...and piles of .scaffolding and wilderness of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes...down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the air, moulding in the water, and unintelligible as any dream. Hot springs and fiery eruptions, the usual...

...early awkwardness of a new urban type. All new city forms appear in their early stages to be chaotic. "There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances...upside down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the earth, moldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream." This was Charles Dickens describing...

...piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness" (120f.). If the London of The Secret Agent is considered in this context we become aware of a severe...

...Stagg's Gardens in Camden Town on the London-Birmingham line. The building of the railroad brought 'a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness,...mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream.'157 Within a few years, though, the neighbourhood had discovered a 'powerful and prosperous...