 | 1904 - 1136 ページ
...soon find a 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...and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy... | |
 | 1902 - 662 ページ
...drawingroom," . . . 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...forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping In the poems of Tom Hood and Theodore Hook references to London may frequently be found ; and of our... | |
 | William MacPherson (M. A.) - 1908 - 108 ページ
...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...wilderness of steeples peeping On tip-toe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | 1908 - 554 ページ
...Gray. London ^> ^> ^* <^ ^> <2* A MIGHTY mass of brick, and smoke, and •^ shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there...wilderness of steeples peeping On tip-toe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head, — and there is London... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1910 - 454 ページ
...Common, till on Shooters' Hill it gains the open point of vantage from which Don Juan had his first view of London — A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and...and there a sail Just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 ページ
...by folly or by fate, 8ucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. 2769 Dr. Johnson : London. Line 83 A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 ページ
...in such lines as the following : A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1920 - 416 ページ
...for schame; 'Aha!' quod Pandare, 'here bygynneth game.'" Byron's "ottava rima" rhymes ab ab ab cc: "A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 ページ
...BRATHWAIT— Drunken Barnaby's Journal. 11 A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 ページ
...Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. held it as a woman holds her sucking child; opening...nightgown impatiently, and holding it close, and brooding And Pegasus runs restive in his Qf masts ; a wilderness of steeples peep"Waggon," ing Could he not... | |
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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... 
