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...interest of the scene, I could not help recalling, Byron's ludicrous but most expressive description. " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Can reach ; with here and there a sail juat skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts;...

...accomplished world's great glory now." CHAPTER IV. LONDON. History — Tower — Westminster Abbey. " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky but us wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the...

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...interest of the scene, I could not help recalling Byron's ludicrous but most expressive description. " A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Can reach ; with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts...

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