 | 1847 - 334 էջ
...are now on Shooter's Hill ! #**»** " A mighty mass of brick , and smoke, and shipping, Of maits, — a wilderness of steeples, peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy, A huge dim cupola, like foolscap crown On a fool's head, — and there Is London town! • *«*** " Don Juan... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1848 - 626 էջ
...church-yard. „ TH О Г (i II Т S FROM Т II F, TOP OF TRINITY »Г RICHARD ' A MIOHTV mase of brickB and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye can reach/ BrRow. So, here am I at last, with my right arm encircling this mighty cross, on the very... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1849 - 442 էջ
...interest of the scene, I could not help thinking of Byron's ludicrous but most expressive description : " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as oye Can reach ; with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1853 - 462 էջ
...interest of the scene, I could not help thinking of Byron's ludicrous but most expressive description : " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Can reach ; with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, theu lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1854 - 428 էջ
...reach; with here and there a sail just skipping In sightj then lost amidst the forestry Of masis ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge dun cupola, like a fool's-cap crown On a. fool's head.—and there is London town.' CHAPTER VI. SOME OF THE " SIGHTS 1... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 244 էջ
...breadth, and strait-waistcoated by a range of ungraceful quays, 1 [" A mighty mass of brick, and smoke t and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye...huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—»ud there is London Town !" .Don Juan, caLto x., at. 8?.] a greater deformity than those of... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 էջ
...venerable by the devotions of many generations — the dead and the living — and thus he images it : " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...a sail just skipping In sight — then lost amidst a forestry Of masts ; — a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through. their sea-coal canopy;... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 էջ
...venerable by the devotions of many generations — the dead and the living — and thus he images it : "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,...a sail just skipping In sight — then lost amidst a forestry * The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness... | |
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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... 
