 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 390 pages
...Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade Г Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen...beach 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... | |
 | Caesar Otway - 1827 - 438 pages
...scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methiuks he seems no bigger than his head ; The fishermen that...beach 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 unnumbered... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...Show scarce so fro*s as beetles : half way dowa Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade 1 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen...the beach Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring hark, Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy, Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 544 pages
...scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methiuks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that...beach Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminished to her cock ; her cock a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge. That o'er... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Natural history - 1828 - 256 pages
...so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire — dreadful...beach, Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to a cock ; her cock a buoy, Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, That on the... | |
 | 1828 - 288 pages
...scarce so gross as beetles. Hal f way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade !' Alethinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that...beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to. her cock ; her cock a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The murm'ring surge, That on... | |
 | 1828 - 298 pages
...scarce so gross as beetles* Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade I Mi-thinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that...beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The munn'ring surge, That on... | |
 | W. Davidson - Lanark (Scotland) - 1828 - 244 pages
...were then unknown. GUIDE TO THE SCENERY. GUIDE TO THE SCENERY. •*• CHAPTER IX. JFM. ' How fearful 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs,...the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles." 8HAK8FEARE. THE more delightful part of our task is before us: and, with feelings of high anticipation,... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Kent (England) - 1829 - 792 pages
...deep. " How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Seem scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one...beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminished to her cock, her cock a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The murm'ring surge, That on th'... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire;9 dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than...beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall anchoring bark, DiminUh'd to her cock;'0 her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sieht: The murmuring surge. That on... | |
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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... 
