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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... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 369
1817
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The Tatler, Volume 3

1822 - 488 pages
...low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade...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

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 - 1822 - 404 pages
...scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Mi-thinks he seems no bigger than his head ! The 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...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...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...; 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

1823 - 872 pages
...! 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 !...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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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Troilus and ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...! 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 !...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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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...! 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 !...beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall anchoring bark, • i Diminish'd to her cock8 ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : The murmuring surge,...
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The British Essayists: Tatler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 414 pages
...low? The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade...fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and you tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boat! a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and ..., Volume 3

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 332 pages
...midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire—Dreadful trade'. Methinks he seems no bigger than his head....beach .Appear like .mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diininish'd to her boat; her bunt! a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on...
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The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks...too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd idle pebbles chases, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn,...
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