 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...  Selected Poems of Lord Byron - Page 256de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 279 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female Atheist talks you dead. ilOTV&On, — Byron. J^ MIGHTY Mass of Brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! , — Johnson. J^ONDON ! the needy Villain's gen'ral home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome... | |
 | Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 320 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. LXXXII. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, 82 Dirty, and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach,...crown On a fool's head— and there is London Town ! LXXXIII. But Juan saw not this i each wreath of smoke 83 Appear'd to him but as the magic vapour... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1860 - 442 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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