DEAR DOCTOR, London is literally new to me; new in its streets, houses, and even in its situation; as the Irishman said, ‘London is now gone out of town.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Why, people will say, “that’s all very well, all very true”—and nobody will take the trouble—the consequence is, that the public will go on, paying through the nose as before—and if so, let it not grumble; as it has no one to thank but itself for it.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat