 | 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,...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 164 pages
...who, though he were not of the race, Revered the soil, of those true sons the mother, LXXX. LXXXII. 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... | |
 | 1823 - 772 pages
...and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sari just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry...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... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pages
...and smoke, and «hipping, 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...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal cano py; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 pages
...the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butchered half the earth, and bullied t'other.* LXXXI1. 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... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 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....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 town... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 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,...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 pages
...the soil, of those true sons the mother, Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. 9 LXXXH. 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 cftwn On a fool's head — and there is London... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 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,...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 LondonTown!... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...those true sons the mother, . Who bulcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. A mighty таяв of brick , and smoke , and shipping, Dirty and dusky,...wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe, through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool'e head — and there is LondonTown!... | |
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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... 
