 | Bayard Taylor - 1856 - 526 pages
...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, but as wide as eye Can reach ; with here and there a sail juat skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts;... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - Europe - 1856 - 344 pages
...accomplished world's great glory now." CHAPTER IV. LONDON. History — 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 just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...venerable by the devotions of many generations — the dead and the living — and thus he images it : "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,...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... | |
 | Reformed Church - 1857 - 660 pages
...That mighty mass of brick, and smoke and shipping, Di, ty, and dusky, but as wide as eye Can , ouch, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of mncts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On ti[ifuc through their sea-coral canopy." "What a monster... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1860 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...your time are passed in endeavouring to dispose of the fourth to some advantage. Sir Walter Scott. ubdues him, And curse th tip-too through their sea coal canopy, A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head :... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 532 pages
...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, but as wide as eye Can reach ; with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Europe - 1862 - 536 pages
...smoke and shipping, Dirty and dnsky, but as wide as eye Can reach ; with here and there a suil jnst skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of stceples pecping On tip-toe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge dun cupola, like a fool's-cap crown... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - East Sussex (England) - 1863 - 506 pages
...dangers. From the summit the view is very fine on all sides ; finest, perhaps, toward London : — " 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 seacoal canopy... | |
 | George Godwin - London (England) - 1864 - 152 pages
...scarcely exaggerates:— " A mighty maze of bricks and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but wide aft eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping...huge dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—and there is London town." Year after year the water views of St. Paul's have been more damaged... | |
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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... 
