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: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals - Page 18by Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 520 pages
...nothing 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 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low 2 ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down... | |
| Henry Phillips - Botany, Economic - 1822 - 446 pages
...dainty sought after with extreme danger, we have only to extract a few lines from our immortal bard, " 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 !... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...Shakspeare observes Lord Kames' « rule" though he had never read his « Elements of Criticism." - How fearful 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 ! Metninks... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 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 airr Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...that whoever can read it without growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad " Come on, Sir, here 's the place : stand still ! how fearful And...and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he... | |
| English essays - 1823 - 442 pages
...whoever can read it without growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad one. " Come on, Sir, here 's the place : stand still ! how fearful And...and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 332 pages
...can read it without 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...and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire—Dreadful trade'. Methinks he seems... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 414 pages
...whoever can read it without growing giddy must have a good head, or a verybad one. " Come on, Sir, here's the place : stand still ! how fearful And dizzy 'tis...and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1823 - 418 pages
...we 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 crows and choughs, that wing the midway-air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful... | |
| 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... | |
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