 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - German literature - 1766 - 534 pages
...her cock; her cock, a 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
...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...so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. G/o. Set me where you stand. Edg, Give me your hand :... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...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 sight Topple down headlong. Sluikspeare's King Lear, This description commences,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...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...high : — I'll look no more ; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple1 down headlong. Glo. Set me where you stand. Edg. Give me your hand... | |
 | Sir John Carr - France - 1803 - 302 pages
...to my mind that 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...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...so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. Glo. Set me where you stand. Edg. Give me your hand:... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...! 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. ADDISON. N° 118. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1709-10. Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisii, Tempus... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...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 12, 1709. /« tcniii labor.- • VlRG. Sheer-Lane^ January 11. HAVE lately... | |
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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... 
