| Catherine Sinclair - 1860 - 442 էջ
...hopes of succeeding ; but take Lord Byron's sketch, in full of all demands on ordinary pens : — ' A wilderness of steeples peeping -» On tip-toe, 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.' Some skilful physician once remarked... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 էջ
...your time are passed in endeavouring to dispose of the fourth to some advantage. Sir Walter Scott. ubdues him, And curse th tip-too through their sea coal canopy, A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head :... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 532 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 just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 536 էջ
...smoke and shipping, Dirty and dnsky, but as wide as eye Can reach ; with here and there a suil jnst skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of stceples pecping On tip-toe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge dun cupola, like a fool's-cap crown... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - 1863 - 506 էջ
...dangers. From the summit the view is very fine on all sides ; finest, perhaps, toward London : — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their seacoal canopy... | |
| George Godwin - 1864 - 152 էջ
...scarcely exaggerates:— " A mighty maze of bricks and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but wide aft eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping...huge dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—and there is London town." Year after year the water views of St. Paul's have been more damaged... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 էջ
...Rome ; With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. lb. London. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the foresty Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge... | |
| Richard John King - 1868 - 536 էջ
...the summit the view is very fine on all sides ; finest, perhaps, toward London : — " A mil-lit v mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and...as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through... | |
| B. W. King - 1871 - 122 էջ
...residences, to the city limits, and thence over the very house tops, into the heart of the city — " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as 8ye Can reach. Amidst the foresty Of masts, a wilderness of steeples peeping — A huge dun cupola,... | |
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