 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 str.
...BRATHWAIT— Drunken Barnaby's Journal. 11 A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, BVRON — Don Juan. Canto X. St. 82. 12 Ixjndon is the clearing-house of the world. Jos. CHAMBERLAIN... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1924 - 268 str.
...misty splendour presides over the City of London, and in sense typifies London itself: " A huge dim cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town." That is Byron, in Don Juan, who was not characteristic if not satirical. But those who inhabit beneath... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 str.
...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... | |
 | 1926 - 748 str.
...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...as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sai] just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 str.
...loan of Charles's Wain? Or pray Medea for a single dragon? Or if, too classic for his vulgar brain, mg He fear'd his neck to venture such a Qn a fool-s head_and there is London nag on, And he must needs... | |
 | Robert Edward Smith - 1927 - 392 str.
...to the last franc!" XIX BELGIUM— LONDON— HOME A wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe thro' their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a...crown On a fool's head — and there is London town. — Dr. Johnson. ABOARD the finest, swiftest train in Europe we speed from Paris toward Brussels. Fertile... | |
 | 1911 - 944 str.
...shipping, Dirty and smoky, but as wide as eye ('ould reach, with here and there a sail just skipping hi sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts: a wilderness...steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; Л huge, dim cupola, like a fool's cap crown On a fool's head — and there Is London Town. These lines... | |
 | Thomas Rommel - 1995 - 420 str.
...teilhabenden Figur.68 [X, 82] A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dkty and dusky, but äs wide äs eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping...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!... | |
 | Deborah Anne Dooley - 1995 - 304 str.
...— begins here. So, too, begins the human lament for what is lost. In Byron's Don Juan, London is 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.... | |
 | Anthony Tommasini - 1997 - 654 str.
...more bracing than emotional. Yet there were episodes of real fervor. Byron's pugnacious entrance music ("A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, dirty and dusky, but wide as eye can reach," he sings of London town) was dispatched by Hirst with ringing tone and a triumphant... | |
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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... 
