| John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire : dreadful trade ! Melhinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that...beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Dimiuish'd to her cock : her cock a buoy, Almost too small fur eight. The murmuring surge, That on... | |
| L. Fussell - 1818 - 322 pages
...whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles ! Half way down, Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...on, sir ; here 's the place : — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ' ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 pages
...fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The brows and 6houghs, that wing the midway-air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one...beach, Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge. That on... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 348 pages
...beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire—Dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no higher than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark u. 3 DiminishM to her boat; her limit! a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That... | |
| John Gamble - 1819 - 748 pages
...whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles ! Half way down, Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
| Christian Hieronymus Justus Schlegel - 1819 - 734 pages
...crows and choughs, that wing the midway air » Shew scarce so gtofs as beetles. Half way down Haags one that gathers samphire: — dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The Fisherman , that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminished to... | |
| 1819 - 274 pages
...imagination, when descrihing the i cliffs of Dover : " How Tearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as heetles." \ ' SHAKESPEARE. ' The attraction of Ben T.omond, ami its great altitnde, environ it almost... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...stand still.— How fiarfiil And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, thut wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : halfway down, Hangs one thatgatherssamphire; dreadful trade! Mt thinks, he seems no biggei than his head : The fishermen, that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 520 pages
...destruction, as a person would be who really found himself on the brink of one. M. MASON. 3 — Half way down Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen,...and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock 4 ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle... | |
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