 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1766 - 534 trang
...The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down 30 Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks...fisher-men that walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy 85 Almost too small for sight. The... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1792 - 442 trang
...grofs as Beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers famphire ; dreadful trade ! Me thinks he feems no bigger than, his head! The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buvy Almoft too ilmall for fight. The... | |
 | 1838 - 358 trang
...eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Seem scarce so gross as beetles ! Halfway down, Hangs one that gathers samphire — dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head :" and although I saw no one at that work, the hounds and fox were dwindled into mere specks among... | |
 | 1801 - 446 trang
...dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! • • — The crows and coughs that wing the midway air, Seem scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one...a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surg* That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 trang
...sir, here's the place — stand still. How dreadful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low I The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show...walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yon tall anch'ring bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 trang
...the verge of the mountain — " How fearful " And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! #**•»# " The fishermen that walk upon the beach " Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark " Diminished to her cock. * * '' * * * " The murmuring surge, " That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 trang
...— stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs,8 that 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 his head : 8 Daws. •' A vegetable gathered fur... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 450 trang
...dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ? The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers...mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat; her boat ! a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th' unuumber'd idle... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 trang
...eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Shew scarce as gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade!...mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boat, a buoy, Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge (That on the unnumber'd idle... | |
 | 1808 - 1016 trang
...fearful 'tis to cast one's eye» so " low : " The crows and choughs that wing the " mid-way air " Seem scarce so gross as beetles. Half» " way down " Hangs...dreadful trade ! " Methinks he seems no bigger than " one's head. " The fishermen that walk, upan the " beach '< Appear like mice ; and yon tall a»i"... | |
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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... 
