 | William MacPherson (M. A.) - English literature - 1908 - 108 pages
...following short passages, which resemble one another generally in theme but differ widely in treatment: (a) A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty...reach—with here and there a sail just skipping In sight—then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ;—a wilderness of steeples peeping On tip-toe through... | |
 | Richard Ellis Roberts - London (England) - 1910 - 356 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 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... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - English literature - 1915 - 488 pages
...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 the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1918 - 774 pages
...the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butchered half the earth, and bullied t' other.* 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 sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a... | |
 | Charles George Harper - Dover Road - 1922 - 338 pages
...smile or mourn, According as you take things well or ill; Bold Britons, we are now on Shooter's Hill 1 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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1914 - 1068 pages
...Inns of Court, its old book-stalls. Place by the side of this Don fI nan's first sight of the city : "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... | |
 | Literature - 1903 - 852 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 dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness... | |
 | American periodicals - 1926 - 748 pages
...as surely, when Don Juan's post chaise jingles to the top of Shooter's Hill, and he espies below him 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... | |
 | Aubrey Rosenberg - Education - 1990 - 328 pages
...icon —of the impact its technology would have on their lives. In Byron's Don Juan, there is London: A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but wide as eye Could reach.., A wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy.... | |
 | 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, 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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