metropolis quotes

†the Metropolis of Great-Britain, founded before the City of Rome, walled by Constantine the Great, no ways inferior to the greatest in Europe for Riches and Greatness.

-Bailey, Nathan   d.1742
     LONDON1721 An Universal Etymological English Dictionary.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Letter to Harriet Monroe,7 Nov.

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