At the Sign of the Times: The Travelling Englishman
... At the Sign of the Times The Travelling Englishman This undercloth is dirty; make it to wash instantly! I tran scribe these words in a high room overlooking; the windy canals of Amsterdam: that city built on a sea which is no sea; that city whose inhabitants, said the learned Erasmus, dwell on the tops of trees, like rooks. He meant by the jest to indicate the chief architectural feature ...