 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 dramatic works of William Shakspeare - Page 19by William Shakespeare - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...in falling, Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard, Into the tumbling billows of the main. O Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown ! What...sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors,... | |
 | Rowland Smith - English literature - 1889 - 556 pages
...escape ; nor did we omit bewailing Clinias and Satyrus, believing them to have been drowned. * " O Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown ! What...ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes I .... often did I strive To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood Kept in my soul, and would... | |
 | Heliodorus (of Emesa.) - 1889 - 576 pages
...escape ; nor did we omit bewailing Clinias and Satyrus, believing them to have been drowned. * " O Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown ! What...ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes I .... often did I strive To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood Kept in my soul, and would... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...What fearful noise of waters in mine ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! Methought, I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men, that...heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...spices on the stream, And in a word, yea, even now worth this, And now worth nothing. SHAKSPEARE. O Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown What dreadful...sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks : A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors,... | |
 | Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker - Elocution - 1896 - 430 pages
...falling Struck me, that sought to stay him, overboard Into the tumbling billows of the main. O, then methought what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful...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,... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 910 pages
...sea? Who can sound the bottom of the ocean, au fondT Unless, perhaps, the poet, thus:— Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men that...heaps of pearl. Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes... | |
 | Thomas Donovan - English drama - 1896 - 490 pages
...What dreadful noise of water in mine ears ! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men that...great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalu'd jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea : Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in these... | |
 | Gregor Sarrazin - 1897 - 280 pages
...in falling, Struck me, that thonght to stay him, overboard Into the tumbling billows of the main. O Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown; What dreadful...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 350 pages
...What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears ! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men that...heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes... | |
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