 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 490 pages
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place : — standstill. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place:— stand still. — s°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 ! Methinks,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...DESCRIPTION W/DOVER CLIFF. (SHAKESPEARE ) COME on, Sir, here's the place — stand still. How fcarfol 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,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Africa, Southern - 1806 - 412 pages
...delight round the whole circumference of the horizon. On approaching the verge of the mountain — " How fearful '« And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! *»**#. " The fishermen that walk upon the beach " Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark " D1minish' d to... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 424 pages
...You are much deceiv'd; in nothing am I alter'd, But my garments. Edg. Come on, sir, here's the place. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so big as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! The fishermen,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad one. " Come on, Sir, here's the piaee: 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 as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade !... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 888 pages
...aa Cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep — Here's the place : — How fearful . And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so...! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: — Halfway down ' Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 432 pages
...alter'd, But my garments. Glost. Methinks, you're better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir, here's the place. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so big as beetles ; half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! The... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...vain. Let me see if I can't ridicule their best descriptions. Firstly, Shakspeare's Dover Cliff:— " The crows and choughs that wing the mid-way air " Seem scarce so gross as beetles." Wonderful that distance should diminish to the sight ! i'* Halt-way down " Hangs one that gathers samphire... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1808 - 878 pages
...fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one'seyei so low! 'J he crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: — Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Mc-thinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice... | |
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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... 
