 A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal...  Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff - Էջ 37Bayard Taylor - 1854 - 404 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1823 - 782 էջ
...one stanza on the first glimpse of LONDON ! How many hundred times has the thing been tried before? "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 164 էջ
...who, though he were not of the race, Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, LXXX. LXXXII. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | 1823 - 772 էջ
...one stanza on the first glimpse of LONDON ! How many hundred times has the thing been tried before ? "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sari just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 էջ
...the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butchered half the earth, and bullied t'other.* LXXXI1. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts;... | |
 | Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 էջ
...discerned in the departing twilight. How admirably has Byron described the first aspect of London. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 454 էջ
...discerned in the departing twilight. How admirably has Byron described the first aspect of London. , A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 էջ
...the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. 9 LXXXH. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 էջ
...Piccadilly; and, next morning, I procured comfortable lodgings at the west end of the town. N°. V. LONDON. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye ;. . • Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 354 էջ
...Piccadilly; and, next morning, I procured comfortable lodgings at the west end of the town. N».V. LONDON. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping. Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts;... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 էջ
...Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. A mighty mass of brick , and smoke , and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach , with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts;... | |
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