 | William Shakespeare - Promptbooks - 1899 - 1144 pages
...one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the 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 on... | |
 | Edwin Booth - 1899 - 604 pages
...one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the 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 on... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...(cf. 1. 25). 162. The effect of distance on the size of objects. Cf. 'Lear,' iv. 6:— " The fishermen that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight." 165. sinuous, curving, winding.... | |
 | Ford Madox Ford - Cinque Ports - 1900 - 540 pages
...one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade : Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the 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 the... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1014 pages
...that gathers samphire,— dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the 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 on the... | |
 | W. B. Whall - Naval art and science in literature - 1910 - 130 pages
...She is sailing " a-hold," or in modern parlance "on a bowline " or " close-hauled." The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark ' Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock a buoy Buoy. Almost too small for sight. King Lear, Act IV, Scene... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the 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 the... | |
 | Kurt Albrecht Richter - 1912 - 48 pages
...that gathers sampshire; dreadfull trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than bis head. The Fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to the cock; her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th'... | |
 | John Edward Field - Birds - 1913 - 244 pages
...from the word cock, a little boat, which we met with in Shakespeare. So in King Lear : " The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminished to her cock, her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight." It is recorded that small boats... | |
 | College readers - 1920 - 512 pages
...one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen that walk upon the 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 the... | |
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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... 
