 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...  Don Juan, with notes. Complete ed - Seite 281von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Bayard Taylor - 1854 - 428 Seiten
...reach; with here and there a sail just skipping In sightj then lost amidst the forestry Of masis ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe 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.' CHAPTER VI. SOME OF THE " SIGHTS 1... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 244 Seiten
...strait-waistcoated by a range of ungraceful quays, 1 [" A mighty mass of brick, and smoke t and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—»ud there is London Town !" .Don Juan, caLto x., at. 8?.] a greater deformity than those of... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 Seiten
...Harold. A mighty mass of briek, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reaeh, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight,...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-eoal eanopy ; A huge dun eupola, like a foolseap erown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 Seiten
...the dead and the living — and thus he images it : "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...a sail just skipping In sight — then lost amidst a forestry * The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 Seiten
...the dead and the living — and thus he images it : "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...a sail just skipping In sight — then lost amidst a forestry * The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 Seiten
...shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reaeh, with here and there a sail jnrt flapping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ;...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-eoal eanopy; A huge dun eupola, like a foolseap erown On a fool's bead — and there is London... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 Seiten
...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 huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and this is London-town !"-•' I do not pause... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 Seiten
...sight — then lost amidst a forestry « The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a 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 this is London-town !"* I do not pause to... | |
 | 1856 - 570 Seiten
...female Atheist talks you dead. ilOTV&On, — Byron. J^ MIGHTY Mass of Brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...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... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 Seiten
...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...peeping, On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy A huge, dun-cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fools head— and this is Londrm town." THE situation of London... | |
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