 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 594 pages
...toward which we are swiftly gliding ; and dimly seen in the uncertain twilight, behind you rises " 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 amid the forestry Of masts... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - English literature - 1838 - 486 pages
...wonderfully deceptive. CHAPTER VI. DRURY-LANE. —- THE RAINBOW. A mighty mass of brick, and stone, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye...steeples peeping On tiptoe, through their sea-coal canopy : On a fool's head — and there is London town! Don Juan. A huge, dun cupola like foolscap crown Fire... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - England - 1838 - 406 pages
...my 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,... | |
 | John Richard Beste - England - 1839 - 656 pages
...which this smoky atmosphere occasions, give to a city a very grand appearance of indefinite extent. " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost ainidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...are now on Shooter's Hill ! #**»** " A mighty mass of brick , and smoke, and shipping, Of maits, — a wilderness of steeples, peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy, A huge dim cupola, like foolscap crown On a fool's head, — and there Is London town! • *«*** " Don Juan... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 462 pages
...being diminutive both in depth and breadth, and strait-waistcoated by a range of ungraceful quays, 1 [" A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping. Dirty...crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town !" Don Juan, cauto x., at. 82.] THE SEINE — CHURCH OF ST GENEVIEVE. 229 a greater deformity than... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1848 - 626 pages
...church-yard. „ TH О Г (i II Т S FROM Т II F, TOP OF TRINITY »Г RICHARD ' A MIOHTV mase of brickB and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye can reach/ BrRow. So, here am I at last, with my right arm encircling this mighty cross, on the very... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Europe - 1849 - 442 pages
...interest of the scene, I could not help thinking of Byron's ludicrous but most expressive description : " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as oye Can reach ; with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...of your sophisticated logic, Hold my tongue! You're right, because I'm logic-8ick.l Goethe. LONDON. A MIGHTY mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...crown On a fool's head — and there is London town! I Byron. And there is London! — England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames,... | |
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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... 
