 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 : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!...  The British Essayists - Page 161edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - German literature - 1766 - 534 pages
...©lofter auf bie äufjerfte ©pifce be§ §ügel§ fü^rt, bon weldger er fid) ^erabftürjen тШ*! 25 — Come on, Sir, Here's the place; stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...much deceiv'd; in 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.—...fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! 1'he crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...delight round the whole circumference of the horizon. On approaching the verge of the mountain — " How fearful " And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! #**•»# " The fishermen that walk upon the beach " Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark " Diminished to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...deceiv'd ; in 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....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 Hangs one that... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...have related still dwells so strongly upon me, that I can never read the description of Dover Cliff in Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, without a fresh...that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...much deceiv'd; in 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. —...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...bad one. Come on, Sir, here's the place. Standstill! How fearful . . . And dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Shew scarce as gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 490 pages
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place : — standstill. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 496 pages
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place : — standstill. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...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... | |
 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...track of his accustomed practice." Davies's Dram. Miscel. Vol. II. p. 310. P. 556.— 636.— 226. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand still....fearful! And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low, &c'. I think Mr. M. Mason's remark is just. P. 558— 637.— 228. Edg. Give me your hand : you are... | |
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