 | Sydney Kent - 1915 - 156 стор.
...the very brink of the precipice, whereas they are both miles inland. The passage continues thus : " The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high." Now the shore at Dover is " pebbled," or, as locally called, " shingle " ; other harbours, such as... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 стор.
...and yond tall anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more. — King Lear. EXERCISE 15 1. What a sunrise it was on that morning! Yet I stood... | |
 | Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton - 1922 - 392 стор.
...look down : " The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles . . . The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high." Or if it can be heard, on this cliff by comparison with which Shakespeare's would be a paltry ledge,... | |
 | Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton - 1922 - 410 стор.
...look down : " The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles . . . The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high." Or if it can be heard, on this cliff by comparison with which Shakespeare's would be a paltry ledge,... | |
 | 1922 - 502 стор.
...a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep, or again (4. 6. 20-22), The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high,' we may be surprised to learn that the Shakespeare Cliff at Dover is only 350 feet high. All the more... | |
 | Edward Holdsworth Sugden - 1925 - 614 стор.
...yon tall anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; DOVER her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight ; the murmuring surge That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes Cannot be heard so high." Gerarde, Herbal 428, says, " Rock Sampier grpweth on the rocky cliffs at D." Drayton, in Polyolb xviii.... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - 1925 - 272 стор.
...mice, and yond tall anchoring bark Diminished to a cock, her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. The most striking... | |
 | 1915 - 456 стор.
...trade! • *•••••••• The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice. ...... The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong." Greatness is at... | |
 | 1911 - 944 стор.
...trade! Methiuks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk the beach npappear like mice. The murmuring surge That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes. Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more Lest my brain turn. Burgundy, in Henry T., speaking of his native land, thus dilates... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 стор.
...his blind father that they are on the brink of Dover cliff, the disguised Edgar says to Gloucester, "The murmuring surge/ That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes/ Cannot be heard so high" (King Lear, IV, vi, 20). 41.2/41.42 LOST ARMADA The reference here is probably to the Spanish Armada,... | |
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I'll look no more ; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. 
