 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...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, 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 ;... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 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, Dirty and dusky, but as widens eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 pages
...soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butchered half the earth, and bullied t'cither. * LXXXII. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a eail just skipping In night, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 pages
...and, next morning, I procured comfortable lodgings at the west end of the town. 87 N°. V. LONDON. 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... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 350 pages
...morning, I procured comfortable lodgings at the west end of the town. lagnificently87 N".V. ONPON. 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 ;... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 1828 - 244 pages
...either a ' bum bailey, 1 or an insult, and that he must go to jail or fight. ВТ JB VA« SHAICK. I 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 In eight, t lieu lost amid the forestry Of masts, a wilderness... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...o'er the lawns, the/ore»« walk surround. Rouse the fleet hart and cheer the opening hound. Pope. 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. Byron.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...Swarm o'er the lawus, the_/ore*f walk surround. Rouse the fleet hart and cheer the opening houud. Pope. 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 uieforettry Of masts. Byron.... | |
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