 | Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1827 - 428 pages
...The murmuring sounds That from th' unnumber'd idle triflers spring, Cannot be heard so high. I 'l1 look no more. Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong." CHAPTER VII. ALMACK S BALL. " Oh ! that I dared, since hearts of iron Melt at the strains of Moore... | |
 | Caesar Otway - Ireland - 1827 - 462 pages
...bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. — I'll look no more. — Nothing indeed could be more astonishing than the whole scene ; there was a mist hanging over the... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Natural history - 1828 - 256 pages
...a 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...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. CHAHLES. The treasures of the hawk's nest are obtained by men let down from the summits of rocks by... | |
 | Yi-fu Tuan - Nature - 1990 - 284 pages
...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...turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (Act 4, scene 6). EVIDENCE OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING It is in the history of European landscape painting... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumb'red idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (11-24) The pains Shakespeare takes to create the illusion of Dover Cliff have made many readers doubt... | |
 | 1986 - 668 pages
...left darkling") is indeed grim; but the allusion through Arnold's "grating roar of pebbles" to Edgar's "murmuring surge/ That on th' unnumbered idle pebbles chafes/ Cannot be heard so high" elicits Riede's moral indignation, grounded in a theory of guilt by association: "Arnold has once again... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - Social Science - 1991 - 1434 pages
...her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumb'red idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. What Shakespeare does here is to place five flat panels of two-dimensions, one behind the other. By... | |
 | Richard Halpern - Capitalism and literature - 1991 - 340 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.6.11-24) Among other things, this imaginary landscape organizes and empowers the figures of height... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - Drama - 1993 - 290 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (IV.vi. 11-24) As commentators have pointed out, Edgar's speech tries to reproduce in words the recession... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumbered idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. 145 Set me where you stand. Give me your hand. You are now within a foot Of th'extreme verge. For all... | |
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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... 
