And the space will be speedily built on, unless
To the cry of, “Oh, buy it!” the City says, “Yes.”
Punch. December 26, 1885.
(But the City authorities did not say “Yes,” and the ground has all been covered with lofty warehouses.)
Simplicity.
“Simplicity is a characteristic of the highest species of poetry. Now, no one has carried the simple so far as Wordsworth; and, as I hold it good always to imitate perfection, I have taken the following lines for my model:—
Violets, do what they will,
Wither’d on the ground must lie:
Daisies will be daisies still;