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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... "
The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ... - Page 255
1806 - 380 pages
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...dreadful And dizzy '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...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...
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The British Essayists: Tatler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 410 pages
...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...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...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 10

1823 - 872 pages
...eo 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...beach Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too smalj for sight. The murm'ring surge, That on...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4

British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...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...bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beech Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her ioot ; her boat ! a buoy Almost...
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The British Essayists: Tatler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 414 pages
...eyes so low? The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful...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: Tatler

1823 - 442 pages
...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...bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beech Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boat ! a buoy Almost...
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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 History of Lyme-Regis, Dorset, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Day

George Roberts - 1823 - 442 pages
...this spot : There is a cliff whose high and bended head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ;— How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and...choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross ns beetles. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high....
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin. PRECIPICE. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows,...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...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! [air, The crows, and choughs§, that wing the midway Show scarce so gross as beetles; Half way down Hangs one...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...
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