| England - 1823 - 772 pages
...one stanza on the first glimpse of LONDON ! How many hundred times has the thing been tried before ? "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 pages
...the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. 9 LXXXH. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap cftwn On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! LXXXIH. But Juan saw not this: each wreath of... | |
| Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 pages
...Piccadilly; and, next morning, I procured comfortable lodgings at the west end of the town. N°. V. LONDON. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...their sea-coal canopy ; A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap-crown On a fool's head— and there is London town ! ' BYRON. . (. • "SEATED in a snug room,... | |
| Robert Grenville Wallace - India - 1825 - 354 pages
...Piccadilly; and, next morning, I procured comfortable lodgings at the west end of the town. N».V. LONDON. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping. Dirty...through their sea-coal canopy; A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap-crown On a fool's head—and there is London town ! BTKOX. " SEATED in a snug room, well curtained... | |
| Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pages
...discerned in the departing twilight. How admirably has Byron described the first aspect of London. 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... | |
| Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 454 pages
...discerned in the departing twilight. How admirably has Byron described the first aspect of London. , 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 Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...those true sons the mother, . Who bulcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. A mighty таяв of brick , and smoke , and shipping, Dirty and dusky,...canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool'e head — and there is LondonTown! But Juan saw not this : each wreath of smoke Appear'd to him... | |
| 1828 - 244 pages
...prove an exception in the eommon course of nature. OBSERVATION. LONDON STREETS. BY JB VA» SHAICK. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...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... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...Swarm o'er the lawns, the/orett walk surround. Rouse the fleet hart and cheer the opening hound. Pope. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke and shipping, Dirty...In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts. Byron. But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there ; When the... | |
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