 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...falling houses thunder on your iicad, And here a female atheist talks yon dead. LONDON. Samuel Johnson. A MIGHTY mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A hugs, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head, — and there is London Town! LONDON. Lord... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...Paul's contemptuously — sneering, as was his affectation, at everything, human or divine : — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town !" Among other English... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...and hullied t'other, f LXXXII. A mighty mass of hrick,and smoke,and shipping, Dirty and dusky, hut crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! LXXXIII. But Juan saw not this : each wreath... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...great city in the following lines : A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but 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... | |
 | George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) - 1880 - 262 pages
...AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. NEW EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED, ) ©tuuiunl JEHuatrationsf, a J¥tap, anS A mighty mass of brick and smoke, and shipping Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Can reach .... Amidst the foresty Of masts, a wilderness of steeples pe A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 pages
...readers by his description of the prospect from the summit of the hill looking towards London — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, hut as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! THINGS SWEET. (Don Juan, Canto i. Stanzas 123-127).... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! THINGS SWEET. (Don Juan, Canto i. Stanzas 123-127).... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 510 pages
...of London in the mind of the average Londoner ; his view of it more or less resembling Byron's : " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost among the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy... | |
 | 1903 - 636 pages
...place in Mr. Pickwick's notebook. From Shooter's Hill Don Juan obtained his first glimpse of 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 sea-coal canopy... | |
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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... 
