 | 1895 - 768 էջ
...as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the foresty Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe...canopy ; A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool'shead — and there is London town ! JByron,DJx.82. The sev'nth day this ; the jubilee of man.... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 էջ
...Harold. Canto IV. St. 57. London. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, +J4 4 Ona fool'shead — and there is London Town, c. BYBON— Don Juan. Canto X. St. 82. London ! the needy... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1873 - 610 էջ
...Paul's contemptuously — sneering, as was his affectation, at everything, human or divine : — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...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 there is London... | |
 | 1903 - 852 էջ
...place in Mr. Pickwick's notebook. From Shooter's Hill Don Juan obtained his first glimpse of 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 sea-coal canopy:... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 էջ
...may be wearily ascended for the sake of the view, which is very fine when the weather is clear — ' 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 sea-coal canopy... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 էջ
...Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butchered half the earth, and bullied t' other. 3 LXXXII. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,...huge, dun Cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—and there is London Town ! LXXXIII. But Juan saw not this : each wreath of smoke Appeared to... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 510 էջ
...of London in the mind of the average Londoner ; his view of it more or less resembling Byron's : " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost among the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy... | |
 | 1903 - 636 էջ
...place in Mr. Pickwick's notebook. From Shooter's Hill Don Juan obtained his first glimpse of 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 sea-coal canopy... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 542 էջ
...but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost among the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping...huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—and there is London Town ! " Why should we, the travellers of the world, who so admire other... | |
 | 1904 - 1136 էջ
...place in Mr. Pickwick's notebook. From Shooter's Hill Don Juan obtained his first glimpse of 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 sea-coal canopy:... | |
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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... 
