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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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Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35

Henry W. Wells - English language - 1924 - 256 pages
...Violent, the other Expansive. The first is in Shakespere's earliest manner, the second in his latest. Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, A thousand...of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in the hole Where eyes did once...
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John Keats, Volume 1

Amy Lowell - Poets, English - 1925 - 702 pages
...mine ears! What ugly sights of death within my eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold,...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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Student's Class-book of Elocution: A Manual Containing the Fundamental ...

Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 pages
...methought what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand...holes 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...
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Endymion, a Poetic Romance

John Keats - 1927 - 330 pages
...in which Clarence is giving an account of his dream. Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold,...the sea : Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes 222 NOTES Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting...
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Style in composition

Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - English language - 1927 - 244 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,...the sea : Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting...
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Public Libraries, Volume 34

Libraries - 1929 - 700 pages
...upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stone, unvalued jewels, All scatt'ed in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls...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...
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The Dramatist and the Received Idea

Sanders - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 404 pages
...fishes gnaw'd upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalu'd jcwels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in...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...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 40

English periodicals - 1896 - 1040 pages
...of the sea ? Who can sound the bottom of the ocean, au fond ? Unless, perhaps, the poet, thus : — Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; 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 gems,...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels. All scattered 2 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep And mocked the dead...
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Edward the Second

Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1995 - 388 pages
...treasure: Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scan 'red in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls;...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. . . . (R3, 1.iv.26-32)"...
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