 | Provincial Scotsman - Brussels (Belgium) - 1829 - 300 pages
...small for sight:—The murmuring surge That on. the unnumber'd Idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be beard so high: I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong." A comfortable Englishman in the coach, hearing that I was going to France, looked grave,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...am fallen out with my more heady will. To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man. Id. I'll look no more. Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. Id. Never can reformation in a flood With such a heady current scowering faults ; Nor ever... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...her cock;'0 her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sieht: The murmuring surge. That on the number'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : — I'll look no more ; best my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple" down headlong. Glo. Set me where you stand. Edg.... | |
 | English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...buoy Aii'ii.-i too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' tmnumber'd idle pebbles beats, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain tarn. No. 118 1 Tuesday, January 10, 1709-10. is, edisti satis, atqnc bibistl, Tempus abire tibi -... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 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 : —...my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple" down headlong. Glo. Set me where you stand. Edg. Give me your hand : You are now within a foot Of the extreme... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murrn'ring surge That on the unnumber'd pebbles idly chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no...my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong." — KINO LEAR, Act IV. a School of Industry for 50 girls; a Dispensary, a Savings' Bank,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1830 - 492 pages
...small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnuraber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be hetird so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.— King Lear, act 4. x. 6. A remark is made above, that the emotions of g" randeur and* sublimity... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 412 pages
...eyes so low, " The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, " Shew scarce as gross as beetles. " I'll look no more, " Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight, " Topple down headlong." f BEETHOM. This mountainous and highly interesting parish is situated in the Kendal Ward,... | |
 | John Auldjo - Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) - 1830 - 224 pages
...fate to be apprehended by him, who, from such giddy heights, ventures to " cast his eyes below." " I'll look no more, " Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight . '„ " Topple down headlong." " But without listening to the prohibition, Arthur had commenced his perilous adventure.... | |
 | Robert Mudie - Natural history - 1830 - 406 pages
...effect, which is alluded to by the Philosopher of Poets in his admirable description of Dover cliff: " I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.-" But when the elements are in fury,—when the earth is rocking, and the sea and the sky... | |
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Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon... 
