. A wanderer in London. ft- |rii! ; . r >r. ST, UUNSIAN ^>-l^-l IIK-KAST AMONG THE DEAD 171 dirty place is this, with its myriad stones saturated withI^ondon soot and all awry, and the hum of factories on thenorthern side. Defoes tomb is here, with an obelisk overit, and here also lie Bunyan and Isaac Watts, and WilliamBlake and Thomas Stothard, two gentle old men who wererivals only in their painting of Chaucers Pilgrims; but onecomes out in the depths of depression and had betterperhaps not have entered. Opposite is a little museumof relics of John Wesley, whose statue is there
. A wanderer in London. ft- |rii! ; . r >r. ST, UUNSIAN ^>-l^-l IIK-KAST AMONG THE DEAD 171 dirty place is this, with its myriad stones saturated withI^ondon soot and all awry, and the hum of factories on thenorthern side. Defoes tomb is here, with an obelisk overit, and here also lie Bunyan and Isaac Watts, and WilliamBlake and Thomas Stothard, two gentle old men who wererivals only in their painting of Chaucers Pilgrims; but onecomes out in the depths of depression and had betterperhaps not have entered. Opposite is a little museumof relics of John Wesley, whose statue is there great spiritual man, George Fox, lies close by,in the Friends burial ground; but the Friends museumis not here but in Devonshire House, in Bishopsgate StreetWithout, where many very interesting prints and booksand pampi)!ets of the quiet folk may be seen. From Bunhill Fields one may climb the City Road ona tram — the City Road, once important, once having itsplace in the most popular comic song of the day, but nowa kind of wilderness.
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