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    The document provides details from Dorothy Wordsworth's diary entry from July 31, 1802, describing her early morning departure from London and her views of the city from Westminster Bridge, including sights of St. Paul's Cathedral, the multitude of boats on the River Thames, and the houses and buildings visible without clouds of smoke obscuring the views, comparing the pure light of the sunrise to scenes found in nature.

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    The document provides details from Dorothy Wordsworth's diary entry from July 31, 1802, describing her early morning departure from London and her views of the city from Westminster Bridge, including sights of St. Paul's Cathedral, the multitude of boats on the River Thames, and the houses and buildings visible without clouds of smoke obscuring the views, comparing the pure light of the sunrise to scenes found in nature.

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    Upon Westminster Bridge

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    The document provides details from Dorothy Wordsworth's diary entry from July 31, 1802, describing her early morning departure from London and her views of the city from Westminster Bridge, including sights of St. Paul's Cathedral, the multitude of boats on the River Thames, and the houses and buildings visible without clouds of smoke obscuring the views, comparing the pure light of the sunrise to scenes found in nature.

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    of 17

    Wordsworth as a young man

    The Lake District

    Typical Lake District scenery

    and another

    Wordsworth in later years

    Left London between five and six o'clock of the morning outside the Dover coach. A beautiful morning. The city, St Paul's, with the river a multitude of little boats, made a beautiful sight as we crossed Westminster Bridge; the houses not overhung by their clouds of smoke, and were spread out endlessly; yet the sun shone so brightly, with such a pure light, that there was something like the purity of one of Nature's own grand spectacles.
    Dorothy Wordsworths Diary, 31 July 1802

    Dorothy Wordsworth, writer and sister of William

    Westminster Bridge

    View from Westminster Bridge

    Westminster Bridge in the morning

    Westminster Bridge - Monet

    Saint Pauls cathedral

    Tower of London

    River Thames

    Tower of London

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