 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 էջ
...shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reaeh, with here and there a sail jnrt flapping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ;...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-eoal eanopy; A huge dun eupola, like a foolseap erown On a fool's bead — and there is London... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 էջ
...sight — then lost amidst a forestry * The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and this is London-town !"* I do not pause to... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 էջ
...sight — then lost amidst a forestry « The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and this is London-town !"* I do not pause to... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 էջ
...hurl, P tvoking envious gibe from eaeh pedestrian ehurl. Byron's Childe Harold. A mighty mass of briek, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reaeh, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ;... | |
 | Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 320 էջ
...ribband, stars, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that." CHAPTER XI. " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...there 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, A huge... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1856 - 526 էջ
...interest of the scene, I could not help recalling, 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 juat skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts;... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 էջ
...accomplished world's great glory now." CHAPTER IV. LONDON. History — Tower — Westminster Abbey. " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky but us wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 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 Of masts ; — a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy... | |
 | 1857 - 660 էջ
...That mighty mass of brick, and smoke and shipping, Di, ty, and dusky, but as wide as eye Can , ouch, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of mncts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On ti[ifuc through their sea-coral canopy." "What a monster... | |
 | George S. Measom - 1858 - 496 էջ
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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... 
