 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad one. " 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 as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade!... | |
 | 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...low! The crows and choughs that wing the mid-way air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | 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...! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down VOL. I. Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade... | |
 | 1817 - 236 pages
...And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low I The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air,, Shew scarce so gross as beetles : Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire : dreadful trade t Methinkr, he seems no bigger than his head: The. fishermen, tl'nt walk upon the beach, : •. •... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here 's the place : — stand still. — 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 !... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...steep: Hark ! do you hear the sea ? * * * • * Edg. — 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 mid- way air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful... | |
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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... 
