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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... "
Poetry of Byron - Page 253
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 276 pages
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...of your sophisticated logic, Hold my tongue! You're right, because I'm logic-8ick.l Goethe. LONDON. A MIGHTY mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...crown On a fool's head — and there is London town! I Byron. And there is London! — England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames,...
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Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff: Pedestrian Tour in Europe

Bayard Taylor - 1853 - 462 pages
...interest of the scene, I could not help thinking of 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, theu lost amidst the forestry Of masts...
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Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

Bayard Taylor - 1854 - 428 pages
...reach; with here and there a sail just skipping In sightj then lost amidst the forestry Of masis ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe 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.' CHAPTER VI. SOME OF THE " SIGHTS 1...
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France and Belgium, as orig. publ. under the title of 'Paul's letters to his ...

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 244 pages
...breadth, and strait-waistcoated by a range of ungraceful quays, 1 [" A mighty mass of brick, and smoke t and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye...huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head—»ud there is London Town !" .Don Juan, caLto x., at. 8?.] a greater deformity than those of...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 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, Dirty...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;...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 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 * The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reaeh, with here and there a sail jnrt flapping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ;...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-eoal eanopy; A huge dun eupola, like a foolseap erown On a fool's bead — and there is London...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...sight — then lost amidst a forestry « The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and this is London-town !"* I do not pause to...
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Lectures on English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...sight — then lost amidst a forestry * The Christian Scholar, by the author of The Cathedral, p. 255. Of masts ; — a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and this is London-town !"* I do not pause to...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...hurl, P tvoking envious gibe from eaeh pedestrian ehurl. Byron's Childe Harold. A mighty mass of briek, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reaeh, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ;...
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