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1.
Which Renaissance poet wrote the line,
"London, thou art the Flower of Cities all!" |
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| 2.
What is London called in William Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline"? |
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3.
Who in the eighteenth century wrote a poem called "Farewell to London" which begins,
"Dear, damn'd, distracting Town, Farewell!" |
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Which one of these quotations does *not* come from the mouth of the great Samuel Johnson? |
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Who described London as "a great wen growing upon the fair face of England"? |
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Which one of these phrases occurs in William Blake's poem "London"? |
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7.
Which Romantic poet wrote that:
"Hell is a city much like London,
A populous and a smoky city"? |
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Which Victorian novelist claimed that "London is a modern Babylon" and that "London is a roost for every bird"? |
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The Irish poet W.B.Yeats referred to "this melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually". In which London street did Yeats live for many years? |
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10.
Which twentieth-century poet wrote,
"I thought of London spread out in the sun,
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat"? |
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