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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... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 369
1817
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...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 more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. Shakspeare's King Lear. This description commences, after a long pause, in a low tone of voice, expressive...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Troilus and ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...buoy That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Almost too small for sight : The murmuring surge. t Cannot be heard so high :—I'll look no more ; Lest...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. 6 Glo. Set me where you stand. Edg. Give me your hand : You are now within a foot Of the extreme verge...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...cock ;'° her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbcr'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : —...turn, and the deficient sight Topple" down headlong. Out. Set me where you stand. Edg. Give me your hanJ : You are now within afoot Of the extreme verge...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain, That looks so many...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Part 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 482 pages
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The Juvenile Gardener

Lady - 1824 - 136 pages
...her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.' " " Now," said Frank, " I have a plant in my hand, which, I should think, will neither make a preserve...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 3

1824 - 452 pages
...small for sight ; the immimrina 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," Shakspeare's Cliff is, indeed, a plac* from whose dread summit " Look up a-height :— The shrill-gorged...
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Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volume 2

Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 pages
...The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : — I '11 look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong." Who can gaze upon scenes like these, without raising his thoughts with wonder and admiration to that...
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Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volume 2

Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 330 pages
...murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high : — I '11 iook no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight* Topple down headlong." Who can gaze upon scenes like these, without raising his thoughts with wonder and admiration to that...
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Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the ..., Volume 6

1826 - 638 pages
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