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!... The Tatler - Page 17by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Peller Malcolm - England - 1814 - 308 pages
...elevated sea. At length the hour of harvest arrives, and the reaper trips lightly where Edgar exclaimed, " How fearful and dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice — " unconscious of those fears which agitate... | |
| 1817 - 708 pages
...this Cliff given by our dramatist, and which has been the cause of its being honoured with his name. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down VOL. I. Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...this Cliff given by our dramatist, and which has been the cause of its being honoured with his name. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetleĢ. Halfway down Hangs one that gather: samphire ; dreadful trade! Methinks he seems... | |
| 1817 - 482 pages
...this Cliff given by our dramatist, and which has been the cause of its being honoured with his name. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...and choughs that wing the mid-way air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks he seems... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...am I chang'd, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here 's the place : — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy...and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ' ; dreadful trade ! Methinks,... | |
| John Gamble - 1819 - 748 pages
...cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast ones 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...Methinks, you aie better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand still.— How fiarfiil And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, thut wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : halfway down, Hangs one thatgatherssamphire;... | |
| Roads - 1819 - 274 pages
...imagination, when descrihing the i cliffs of Dover : " How Tearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as heetles." \ ' SHAKESPEARE. ' The attraction of Ben T.omond, ami its great altitnde, environ... | |
| 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 sight... | |
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