 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...the race, Who butcher'd half the earth,* and bullied t'other, t LXXX 11. 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 Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tip-toe through... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 500 pages
...Severed the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied i'other. 10 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... | |
 | Cecil Haselwood - 1879 - 338 pages
...want the money." " But you have it, it is left you, though it is but a very small sum." CHAPTEK VI. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reacb, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ;... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...St. Paul's contemptuously—sneering, as was his affectation, at everything, human or divine :— " 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 ;... | |
 | George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) - 1880 - 262 pages
...IMPROVEMENTS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. NEW EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED, ) ©tuuiunl JEHuatrationsf, aJ¥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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...Rome ; With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. lb. 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 foresty Of masts ; a... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. SATIRIC. . 253 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 ;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1881 - 338 pages
...home, As one who, though he were not of the race, Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, 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 ;... | |
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