 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 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 air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | George Roberts - Lyme Regis (England) - 1823 - 442 pages
...this spot : There is a cliff whose high and bended head Looks fearfully on the confined deep;— How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 490 pages
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place: — Stand -fill. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and (houghs,i that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 444 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 !... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...garments. 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 : Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire f ; dreadful trade !... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - American literature - 1824 - 264 pages
...mind Shakspeare's unrivalled description of the cliffs of Dover. " 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 Mcthinks... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...the heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin. PRECIPICE. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...garments. Glo. Mcthinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; hereVthe place :— Stand still. —How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes...The crows, and choughs," that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ;9 dreadful trade!... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 502 pages
...garments. Glost. Mutliinks. you're belter spoken. Edff. Come on, sir; [Crowes to н.] here's the place. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so big as beetles ; half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! The... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - Birds - 1826 - 446 pages
...soon learns to eat raw or dressed meat, bread, and soft grain, but will not eat common worms. • " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles." THE MAGPIE. PIANET. (Corvus Pica, Linn. — La Pie, Buffi) LENGTH... | |
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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... 
