 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...deceived: in nothing am I changed But in my garments. GLO'STER Methinks y'are better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still; how fearful...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... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...mind two somewhat similar texts: 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...Methinks 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... | |
 | Bernard Brugière - English literature - 1995 - 344 pages
...perspectives naturalistes toutes deux à force de détails, de mesures précises, de repères familiers : Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...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... | |
 | Robert Nye - Fiction - 1999 - 428 pages
...cliff-haunting chough, your chough graculus or Pyrochorax, when he has Edgar at Dover in King Lear pronounce Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...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... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - Drama - 1999 - 318 pages
...turning this illusion into a second-party narration for a blind man who, after all, cannot see anything: Come on sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful...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 samphire, the dreadful... | |
 | Susan Bruce - Drama - 1998 - 196 pages
...stage - and of language - to realize what the lines represent. II. Perspectives Here are Edgar's lines: Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful...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 samphire - dreadful... | |
 | Gillian Darley - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 380 pages
...Hofland had quoted some lines from King Lear which might be suggested by one precipitous view: 'Here lies the place stand still. How fearful, and dizzy 'tis,...eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the mid-way air, show scarce as gross as beetles.' The hea\y rain intensified a mood of Shakespearean tragedy.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...deceived. In nothing am I changed 10 But in my garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks you're better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! 13 The crows and choughs that wing the midway air 14 Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down... | |
 | Christopher Pye - Drama - 2000 - 220 pages
...and despairing father to what Gloucester takes to be the cliffs of Dover. Edgar describes the view: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...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!... | |
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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 samphire; dreadful trade!... 
