 | Bayard Taylor - 1882 - 534 Seiten
...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, bnt as wide as aye Can reach ; with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst... | |
 | 1883 - 628 Seiten
...summit are very grand, especially the view of the mighty London, which Don Juan paused tf gnzo upon— " 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... | |
 | Blanche Roosevelt - 1884 - 536 Seiten
...its being a little smoky, he added, smilingly, "Ah! quite true. Let me see. What does Byron say? " 'A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye — ' " "Finish it," said Mr. Randolph, coming up at that moment. " ' A huge dim cupola, like a foolscap... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 Seiten
...outward objects. Let us take his picture of London, and contrast it with Wordsworth's : — BYRON. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea- coal canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown WORDSWORTH. (Composed upon Westminster... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 458 Seiten
...sea, toward which we are swiftly gliding ; and, dimly seen in the uncertain twilight, behind us rises A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a fool's-cap crown On a fool's head — and there is London town ! * * Don Juan, Canto X. Ixxxii. ANGLO-SAXON... | |
 | Victoria Steamboat Association - 1893 - 152 Seiten
...I'm floored by that 'ere — Frenchman.' " A fine view of London is obtained from Shooter's Hill. " A mighty mass of brick and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea coal canopy ; A huge dun cupola like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1893 - 656 Seiten
...readers by his description of the prospect from the summit of the hill looking towards London — " Л mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of iteeples peeping On tip-toe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge dim cupola, like a foolscap crown... | |
 | Thames - 1894 - 154 Seiten
...l'm floored by that 'ere — Frenchman.' " A fine view of London is obtained from Shooter's Hill. " A mighty mass of brick and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping ln sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 388 Seiten
...dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid 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 !' Byron. The Monument is caged at the top in consequence of the mania... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1895 - 400 Seiten
...or mourn, According as you take things well or ill ; Bold Britons, we are now on Shooter's Hill! " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping Dirty...huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—and there is London Town ! " Don Juan had got out on Shooter's Hill: Sunset the time, the place... | |
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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... 
