“Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!””
Quotes by Edwin, Sir Arnold
“Sir Edwin Chadwick, whose Sanitary Report proved to be a bestseller for the Stationery Office in 1842, confirmed that, every year, 20,000 adults and 30,000 youths and children were ‘imperfectly interred’ in less than 218 acres of burial ground, ‘closely surrounded by the abodes of the living’.2””
Necropolis: London and Its Dead
Edwin, Sir ArnoldSir Edwin Arnold was a British poet and journalist best known for his works that explored Eastern philosophy and culture, particularly Buddhism and Indian literature. Born in 1832, Arnold's early care...