 tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Pagina 2081820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pagina’s
...very bad one. Come on, Sir, here's the place. " Stand still ! How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast ones" eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade Ï... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pagina’s
...the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was ! 2 — v. 4. 89 How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs/ that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles : half way down, Hangs one that gathers samphire;* dreadful trade! Methinks, he... | |
 | 1905 - 442 pagina’s
...lucrative industry, as it apparently was in Shakespeare's time : " .... How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles — half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — dreadful trade!"... | |
 | Michael Mooney - 1990 - 260 pagina’s
...sight" (23) can only visualize: Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1990 - 566 pagina’s
...only in the imagination of his credulous uncle. Chapter II — "How fearful And dizzy 't is, to case one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire: dreadful trade!" King... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 pagina’s
...also the need to fix the gaze: Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Lupton Julia Einhard, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 pagina’s
...Cliffs" constructed out of words: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pagina’s
...Edgar's putative account of the view from Dover Cliffs in King Lear ("How fearful / And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! / The crows and choughs that wing the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles" [3.6.11-24]) and Johnson's comment on Edgar's speech to the effect... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 160 pagina’s
...y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And di22y 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pagina’s
...y'are better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still; how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! GLO... | |
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