| 1828 - 288 pages
...bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. — How dizzy 'lis to cast one's eyes so Ion' ! The crows and choughs, that wing the mid-way air, Seem scarce so gross as beetles. Hal f way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade !' Alethinks he seems no bigger than... | |
| William Henry Ireland - Kent (England) - 1829 - 792 pages
...whose high and bending he»J Looks fearfully on the confined deep. " How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Seem scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his... | |
| William Henry Ireland - Kent (England) - 1829 - 800 pages
...whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Seem scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade I Methinks he seems no bigger than his... | |
| Provincial Scotsman - Brussels (Belgium) - 1829 - 300 pages
...following picture :— " Come on, Sir: here') the place:—stand still:—l,mv fearful And dizzy 'tin, 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 trade ! Mcthinks... | |
| English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...head, or a very bid one. Come on, sir, here's the place : stand still f how fearful And dizzy .'Its In cast one's eyes so low? The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gruss as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire— Dreadful trade .'... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...on us. And would have reft theyuAer* of their prey, Had not they been very slow of sail. Shakrpeare. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The fiihermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice. III. King Lear. Here comes Romeo, — Without... | |
| A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...is a 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 low...! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: — Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!... | |
| Botany, Economic - 1832 - 412 pages
...southern shores ; and even in the time of Shakspeare it was a profitable occupation to gather it. " 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 !... | |
| Botany - 1830 - 632 pages
...the seeds somewhat resembling that grain. £.) J (" 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 !... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stapd 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 !... | |
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