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" Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful noise of water in mine ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 35
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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The Pageant of English Poetry

Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls...As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep, And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by. W. SHAKESPEARE...
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The Aesculapian, Volume 1

Albert Tracy Huntington - Medicine - 1909 - 298 pages
...; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls;...(As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep, And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by. Often did I strive...
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Fish Stories Alleged and Experienced: With a Little History Natural and ...

Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan - Fishes - 1909 - 422 pages
...; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls...crept, (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems." " There's a picture for you," said the boatman, picking up his stroke; and as I sat and held the trembling...
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The Aldus Shakespeare: With Copious Notes and Comments, Volume 29

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 276 pages
...upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls;...crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, 31 Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scattered by. Clarence....
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...Sailors, Sea-sickness, Sea-weed, Shipping:, Storm, Swimming, Waves. I saw a thousand fearful wracks : A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon : Wedges of...scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's sknlls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit there were crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes,...
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Shakespeare's Stories of the English Kings

Thomas Carter - 1912 - 332 pages
...; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea : Some lay in dead men's...crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, Which woo 'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scattered by." He paused,...
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The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - Bible - 1913 - 252 pages
...ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold,...unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea." — SHAKESPEARE : Richard III. (Act i. Scene 4). JONAH i. 17. And the Lord prepared a great fish to...
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Fifteen Plays of Shakespeare: With a Glossary Abridged from the Oxford ...

William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 pages
...fishes gnaw'd upon ; ,25 Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalu'd jewels All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some...holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, 30 As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd...
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John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-fame

Sidney Colvin - 1917 - 666 pages
...ears ! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes I Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold,...unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Keats, no doubt remembering, and in a sense challenging, this passage, wrote, — Far had he roam'd,...
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The Influence of Oversea Expansion on England to 1700

James Edward Gillespie - Great Britain - 1920 - 396 pages
...upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls...crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scattered by.1 Many sea...
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