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" Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by. "
The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered ... - Page 280
by William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853
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Shakespeare Studied in Eight Plays

Albert Stratford George Canning - 1903 - 514 pages
...him, overboard, Into the tumbling billows of the main. What dreadful noise of water in mine ears ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand...unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea." Then in the next world he fancies he had met the reproachful ghosts of those he had slain or deceived....
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William Shakespeare: His Life, His Works, and His Teaching

George William Rusden - 1903 - 432 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...of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting...
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English History in Verse

Ernest Pertwee - English poetry - 1906 - 432 pages
...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...of the sea ; Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes, ) reflecting...
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A Sailor's Garland

John Masefield - Sea poetry - 1906 - 360 pages
...there The voices of the sailor-men shall comfort him When the great ships go by. FROM KING RICHARD III. I SAW a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men that...of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, theA-were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,...
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The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, Volume 34

William Shakespeare - 1907 - 300 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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Natural Drills in Expression, with Selections: A Series of Exercises ...

Arthur Edward Phillips - Elocution - 1909 - 394 pages
...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...reflecting gems. That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by. My dream was lengthen'd after life. 0 ! then...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 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...of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit there were crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,...
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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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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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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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