 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...LONDON ! How many hundred times has the thing been tried before ? "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sari just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...hundred times has the tiling been tried before ? "A mighty moss of brick, and smoke, and «hipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sait just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping... | |
 | 1828 - 244 pages
...course of nature. OBSERVATION. LONDON STREETS. BY JB VA» SHAICK. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye...reach, with here and there a sail just skipping „ In sjght, then lost amid the forestry " Of masts, a wilderness of steeples peepingOn lip-toe through their... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...huge metropolis, as it has since been described, "A mifhty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirt? and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In ii|hl, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a Hildcrness of steeples peeping On tiplw through the... | |
 | Camden Elizabeth Lambert - 1836 - 752 pages
...had taken a last farewell of home and of my father. 90 CHAPTER V. 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 juat skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...which rise as close behind the city as the Carllon-hill in res* ["A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a Bail just skipping ID sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of inants ; a wilderness of steeples peeping... | |
 | David Wilkie - Canada - 1837 - 320 pages
...full view of the far-famed capital of the Union. CHAPTER III. " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, witli here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness... | |
 | John Richard Beste - England - 1839 - 656 pages
...occasions, give to a city a very grand appearance of indefinite extent. " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye...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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - East Sussex (England) - 1863 - 506 pages
...very fine on all sides ; finest, perhaps, toward London : — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye...and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their seacoal canopy... | |
 | Richard John King - 1868 - 536 pages
...very fine on all sides ; finest, perhaps, toward London : — " A mil-lit v mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through... | |
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In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a 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 town! 
