 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...  The Story of My Wardship - Page 173by Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856Full view - About this book
 | England - 1823 - 782 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,...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 canopy; A... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 164 pages
...who, though he were not of the race, Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, LXXX. LXXXII. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...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 canopy ;... | |
 | 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.) - 1824 - 346 pages
...the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butchered half the earth, and bullied t'other.* LXXXI1. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...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 canopy ; A... | |
 | 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...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 canopy; A... | |
 | 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...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 canopy ;... | |
 | 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...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 canopy ;... | |
 | 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...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 canopy ;... | |
 | 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...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 canopy; A... | |
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