 | James Thorne - 1876 - 430 էջ
...toward the great city," is characteristic: " A might y mass of brick, and emote, and shipping, Duty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a tail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts : a wilderness of steeples peeping... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1877 - 398 էջ
...danger?. 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 էջ
...falling houses thunder on your iicad, And here a female atheist talks yon dead. LONDON. Samuel Johnson. A MIGHTY mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A hugs, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head, — and there is London Town! LONDON. Lord... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 էջ
...Paul's contemptuously — sneering, as was his affectation, at everything, human or divine : — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town !" Among other English... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 էջ
...great city in the following lines : A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and 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... | |
 | George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) - 1880 - 262 էջ
...AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. NEW EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED, ) ©tuuiunl JEHuatrationsf, a J¥tap, anS A mighty mass of brick and smoke, and shipping Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Can reach .... Amidst the foresty Of masts, a wilderness of steeples pe A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 էջ
...readers by his description of the prospect from the summit of the hill looking towards London — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, hut as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 էջ
...Bome ; 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... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1882 - 334 էջ
...the 20th, from which I see that you have not forgotten me, though you are in the midst of— " The mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—and that is London town." * » * * « " Perhaps... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1882 - 332 էջ
...see that you have not forgotten me, though you are in the midst of — ' ' The mighty mass of trick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide...On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and that is London town." ***** " Perhaps you... | |
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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... 
