...now find covered with streets and squares, and palaces and churches. I am credibly informed, that, in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses...unwieldy metropolis. Pimlico and Knightsbridge are almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington ; and, if this infatuation continues for half a century, I...

...find covered with streets, and squares, and palaces, and churches. I am credibly informed, that in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses...exclusive of what is daily added to other parts of this unweildy metropolis. Pimlico and Knightsbridge are now almost joined to Chelsea and Kensington; and...

...now find covered with streets and squares, and palaces, and churches, l am credibly informed, that in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses...added to other parts of this unwieldy metropolis. 15 The physical fabric of London faithfully reflected the English social hierarchy, with its elegant...

...me [...] as the Irish man said, 'London has gone out of town,' [...] I am credibly informed, that in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses...daily added to other parts of this unwieldy metropolis [...] If this infatuation continues for half a century, 142 This urban spread is what eventually did...

...now find covered with streets, and squares and palaces, and churches. I am credibly informed that in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses have been built in new quarter of Westminster. (...) [T]here is no distinction or subordination left - The different departments...

...its growth: Smollett's Matt Bramble, who envisioned it as "an immense wilderness", exclaimed testily: "Pimlico and Knightsbridge are now almost joined to...the whole county of Middlesex will be covered with brick".20 Seward might be expected to present her own version of such anxieties yet her local patriotism...