 | Cecil Haselwood - 1879 - 338 էջ
...want the money." " But you have it, it is left you, though it is but a very small sum." CHAPTEE VI. " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...crown On a fool's head — and there is London town ! " "A MIGHTY mess" of dirt and darkness was the "little village" as Jack Lefroy made his way in a... | |
 | 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 Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 էջ
...and hullied t'other, f LXXXII. A mighty mass of hrick,and smoke,and shipping, Dirty and dusky, hut ! LXXXIII. But Juan saw not this : each wreath of smoke Appear'd to him hut as the magic vapour Of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 էջ
...Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! THINGS SWEET. (Don Juan, Canto i. Stanzas 123-127). 'T1s sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 էջ
...BRATHWAIT— Drunken Barnaby's Journal. 11 A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, BVRON — Don Juan. Canto X. St. 82. 12 Ixjndon is the clearing-house of the world. Jos. CHAMBERLAIN... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1924 - 268 էջ
...misty splendour presides over the City of London, and in sense typifies London itself: " A huge dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town." That is Byron, in Don Juan, who was not characteristic if not satirical. But those who inhabit beneath... | |
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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... 
