 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 424 pages
...feel a sort of pleasure mixed with the pain, witness Shakspeare's description of Dover cliffs : — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The brows and 6houghs, that wing the midway-air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1820 - 748 pages
...downward downward brings to mind the words of our immortal Shakspeare, " How fearful And dizzy 'lis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Shew scarce as gross as beetles. — I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...are much deceived ; in nothing am I changed, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks you are better spokeu. Edg. Come on, Sir ; here's the place :— Stand still....dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and chough's*, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles: half-way down Hangs one that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 520 pages
...much deceiv'd ; in nothing am I chang'd, But in my garments. GLo. Methinks, you are better spoken. EDG. Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still....fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low 2 ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany, Economic - 1822 - 446 pages
...dainty sought after with extreme danger, we have only to extract a few lines from our immortal bard, " 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...Shakspeare observes Lord Kames' « rule" though he had never read his « Elements of Criticism." - 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... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...but as actually present to the speaker. Come on, sir, here's the place— stand still. How dreadful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway airr Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...are much deceiv'd; in nothing am I chang'd, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place ; — stand still....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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...much deceiv'd ; in nothing am-I chang'd. But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place :—stand still.—...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 410 pages
...proper incidents, that whoever can read it wit growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad one. " Come on, Sir, here's the place : stand still ! how...one's 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... | |
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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!... 
