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" tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon... "
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by William Hone - 1837
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 20

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Metninks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear...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. King Lear, Act...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 20

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear...bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock a buoy Almost tuo small fur sight. The murmuring surge, That on the unntimber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard...
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The Tatler, Volume 3

1822 - 488 pages
...way down 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 tall anchoring bark I am sure I have, met with such deliverances by means of a dream. And such a deliverance will every...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 20

Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...Half-way down Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade ! The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminished to her cock ; her cock a buoy That on the unnumher'd idle pebbles chafes, Almost too small...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...fishermen that walk upon the heach Appear like mice ; and yon tall anch'i-ing bark ; 30 % niminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murm'ring surge, That on the unnumber'd pebbles idly chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late Mrs. Catharine Cappe

Catharine Cappe - 1822 - 494 pages
...highly gratified and delighted at Dover, by the sublime, yet awful and tremendous cliffs, from whence " The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard." Here, as I stood and viewed the corresponding cliffs on the French coast, I could not but lament that...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head ! The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear...; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murm'ring surge, That on the unnumber'd pebbles idly chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 10

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear...Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too smalj for sight. The murm'ring surge, That on th' unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1823 - 418 pages
...The fishermen that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminished ,lo her cock ; her cock, a buoy - Almost too small for...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. King Lear, Act...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Troilus and ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear...anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock ;* her cock, a buoy That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Almost too small for sight : The murmuring surge. t Cannot...
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