| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - German literature - 1766 - 534 pages
...buoy 85 Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbred idle pebbles chafes Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong1 • 2Ш biefer ©telle bel ©fyoiefpeare ju öergieidjen... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...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 surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yon tall anch'ring bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for 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
...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 my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. In descending the hill, we perceived a Flag of Truce... | |
| 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
...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 murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : — I'll look no more ; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight... | |
| Sir John Carr - France - 1803 - 302 pages
...beautiful description of Shakspeare — -The murmuring surge That on th' unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlongWe did not visit the other tower, as it was uniform with... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...so low ? The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful...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.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...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 surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 490 pages
...upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock;8 her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : — I'll look no more ; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight... | |
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