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
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...we feel a sort of pleasure mixed with the pain : witness Shakspeare's description of Dover clifis : -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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...am I chang'd, Sut in my garments. Glo. Mcthinks, 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 ! The crows, and choughs,8 that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down ¡längs one that... | |
| 1831 - 418 pages
...our encampment appeared reduced to a diminutive size. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles." The soil which results from the gradual disintegration of this rock, is nearly a pure sand. On descending... | |
| 1831 - 418 pages
...our encampment appeared reduced to a diminutive size. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air Show scarce KG gross as beetles." Of the height of this cliff, the estimate which we have given is merely conjectural.... | |
| D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...mind two somewhat similar texts: Edgar's putative account of the view from Dover Cliffs in King Lear ("How fearful / And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes...the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles" [3.6.11-24]) and Johnson's comment on Edgar's speech to the effect that (to quote Bayley's footnote)... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And di22y 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
| Bernard Brugière - English literature - 1995 - 344 pages
...toutes deux à force de détails, de mesures précises, de repères familiers : Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half-way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than lus... | |
| William C. Carroll - Drama - 1996 - 268 pages
...with new clothing and altered speech. The famous image that Edgar creates of the view from the cliff ("the crows and choughs that wing the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles") contains perhaps more detail than even Gloucester needs to convince him of where he stands (he has... | |
| Robert Nye - Fiction - 1999 - 428 pages
...chough graculus or Pyrochorax, when he has Edgar at Dover in King Lear pronounce Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis...gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Chapter Eight Which is mostly about choughs but has no choughs in it When... | |
| Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - Drama - 1999 - 318 pages
...into a second-party narration for a blind man who, after all, cannot see anything: Come on sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, the dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
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