| William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost...unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. G/o. Set me... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...bigger than his head ! The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yon tall anch'ring bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost...sight. The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd pebbles idly chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock : her cock a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surg* That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest... | |
| Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...the beach " Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark " Diminished to her cock. * * '' * * * " The murmuring surge, " That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, " Cannot be heard so high." All the objects on the plain below are, in fact, dwindled away to the eye of the spectator into littleness... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1802 - 410 pages
...lipon thé beach Appear like mice ; and yon' tall anchoring bai k Diminish'd to her cock ; her cocfc , a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on thé unnutnber'd idle pebbles chafes, Giniiot tie heard so high. Fil look no more, Lest my brain turn... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock ; 1 her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : The...unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : — I'll look no more ; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple1 down headlong. Glo. Set... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost...unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. Glo. Set me... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...walk upon the beach Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boat, a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge (That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles beat) Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn. I No. 119. THURSDAY, JANUARY... | |
| English literature - 1808 - 1016 pages
...that walk, upan the " beach '< Appear like mice ; and yon tall a»i" cboring bark " Seem» Icsîen'd to her cock, her cock " a buoy, " Almost too small for sight . " The murmuring surge beneath " Cannot be heard so high." The eggs, immediately after they arc • ', • liu^ ^IMIII, u«... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat; her boat ! a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th' unuumber'd idle pebbles beats, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn.... | |
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