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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... "
Don Juan, with notes. Complete ed - Page 281
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857
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Don Juan. Complete ed., with notes

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 pages
...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,...crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! But Juan saw not this : each wreath of smoke Appear'd to him but as the magic vapour Of some alchymic...
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The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell

Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 648 pages
...dusky, but us wide as eye Can reach : whh here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping:...crown On a fool's head— and there is London town.' "The west end of London, always bating the smoke, surpasses the most extravagant conception which a...
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DON JUAN

LORD BYRON - 1875 - 418 pages
...smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dnsky, hot as wide as eye Conld reach, with here and there a sad mst skipping, In sight, then lost amidst the forestry...masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe, throngh their sea-coal canopy; A hnge, dnn cnpola, like foolscap crown On a fool's head—and there...
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The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell

Benjamin Morgan Palmer - 1875 - 632 pages
...Juan :' " ' A mighty mass of brick, and stone, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye . Can reach ; with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tip-toe, through their sea-coal canopy...
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Poems of Places: England and Wales, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 288 pages
...atheist talks you dead. Samuel Johnson. LONDON. ' A MIGHTY mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, A- Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...canopy ; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown Oil a fool's head, — and there is London Tow*! Lord Byron. LONDON. live in London was my young wood-dream,...
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Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged ..., Part 2

James Thorne - London Region (England) - 1876 - 456 pages
...scorn toward the great city," is characteristic : " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping. Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; A huge, dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town!"* But in the olden...
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Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged ..., Part 2

James Thorne - London Region (England) - 1876 - 430 pages
...scorn toward the great city," is characteristic : " À 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 loet amidst the forestry Of masts : a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal...
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Lambourne-Yiewsley

James Thorne - Greater London (England) - 1876 - 430 pages
...toward the great city," is characteristic: " A might y mass of brick, and emote, and shipping, Duty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a tail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts : a wilderness of steeples peeping...
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Handbook for Travellers in Kent ...

John Murray (Firm) - Kent (England) - 1877 - 398 pages
...all sides ; finest, perhaps, toward London : — " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their seacoal canopy...
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Dead lilies, ed. by mrs. Henry Kingsley, Volume 2

Cecil Haselwood - 1879 - 338 pages
...though it is but a very small sum." CHAPTEE VI. " A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with...crown On a fool's head — and there is London town ! " "A MIGHTY mess" of dirt and darkness was the "little village" as Jack Lefroy made his way in a...
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