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" Gloster stumbled: and, in falling, Struck me, that thought to stay him, over-board, Into the tumbling billows of the main. O Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within mine... "
The Influence of Oversea Expansion on England to 1700 - Page 289
by James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 367 pages
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The Shakespeare's cyclopædia; or, A classified and elucidated ..., Part 1

James Hamilton Fennell - 1862 - 60 pages
...recollected that his imagination plunged him into the ' tumbling billows of the main':— CLARENCE. And then methought what pain it was to drown, What dreadful noise of waters in my ears ! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! I thought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ;...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity. (I, i) 97 O my ears! What sights of ugly death within my eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks; Ten thousand...
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Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

Gerald L. Bruns - 1992 - 338 pages
...and confused sights" that Clarence in Shakespeare's Richard III recalls from his dream of drowning: What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought 1 saw a thousand fearful wrecks; Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon. (1.4.22—25) Call it, just...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...and, in falling, Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard Into the tumbling billows of the main. Ufe. Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that,...though thou art hence; Which, being writ to me, shall wracks; Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...these days. 1Mf,n Itii-hurii III No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. 10461 Richard III other of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in he water in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes! 10462 Richard III Woe to the land that's...
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The Late Mr. Shakespeare

Robert Nye - 1999 - 428 pages
...ships. Above all, there's this fear in him of drowning. Remember poor Clarence's dream in Richard III: 0 Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! You don't write like that without first-hand experience of the matter. (I should know. I once fell...
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Mainsail to the Wind: A Book of Sailing Quotations

William Galvani - 1999 - 236 pages
...safety of the boat. SAADI (Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi) from 'The Gulistan of Saadi', 1258 O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown, What dreadful noise of waters in my ears, What sights of ugly death within my eyes! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from King Richard the Third,...
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Visions of the Night: Dreams, Religion, and Psychology

Kelly Bulkeley - 1999 - 236 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 dreadful noise of water in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within my eyes! Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;...
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From Islands to Portraits: Four Literary Variations

Sergio Perosa - 2000 - 132 pages
...dreams, of ugly sights"), experiencing the very pains of death, the passage into the other world; O Lord! Methought what pain it was to drown: What dreadful noise of waters in my ears; What sights of ugly death within my eyes! For TS Eliot, who ostensibly wove this motif into...
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Richard III

Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 38 pages
...wakes; realising why they have come, he appeals to their consciences. They say they Clarence's dream Lord, Lord! methought what pain it was to drown: What dreadful noise of water in mine ears! Wliat sights of ugly death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful...
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