...smoke, and •^ shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry...crown On a fool's head, — and there is London Town ! Lord Byron. London ^^ ^> ^ *c>- *^y ^* "TO live \n London was my young wood-*• dream — London,...

...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...crown On a fool's head — and there is London town ! BYBON. (b) SONNET COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE IN EARLY MORNING. Earth has not anything to show...

...again, and be again undone. (Byron, Don Juan l, 194.) A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe...crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town! j(Byron, Don Juan X, 82.) The Summer came, and all the birds were dead; The days were like hot coals;...

...dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with 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 I But we turn back to mark the growth of Southside London along the river. Eastwards from London Bridge,...

...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...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...

...lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a 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 ! " For this new world of poetry in Byron's satiric writings, Rogers had no perception. He told Dyce...

...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...crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town. 2770 Byron : Don Juan. Canto x. St. 82 The sev'nth day this ; the jubilee of man. London ! right well...

...and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry...crown On a fool's head — and there is London Town ! Don Juan, in fact, Byron's longest and really greatest work, shows all of his characteristics: his...

...smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye • Could reach, with here and there a sail 6 / BVRON — Don Juan. Canto X. St. 82. 12 Ixjndon is the clearing-house of the world. Jos. CHAMBERLAIN...

...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...