 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1845 - 488 pages
...without feeling that there is a sublimity in the depths beneath as well as in the heights above. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...wing the midway air. Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gaihers samphire, dreadful trade! Methmks he seems no bigger than his head.... | |
 | 1845 - 622 pages
...enthusiasm of its owner, an enthusiasm in which all present participate, recites aloud the passage — « How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : half-way down — hut here the train rushes into the very bowels of the cliff, and the voice is lost... | |
 | G. F. Sargent, William Shakespeare - 1846 - 292 pages
...LEAR. ACT IV. SCENE VI. SlIAktSl'EAKE CLIFF, DoVEH. Edyar. Here '» the place ! stand still.—How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low...beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadfid trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1847 - 378 pages
...maritum, suspended over the cliffs by a rope, Shakspere might well describe as a fearful trade ! " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down, Hangs one who gathers samphire. Dreadful trade ! " The many accidents which have occurred in this bay have induced... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...— " Come on. sir, here's the place : — Stand still; how fearful And dizzy 'us to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway...down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Metliiuks, he seems no bigger than his head ; The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - Europe - 1847 - 278 pages
...Edgar describe to Gloster the fearful height on which they seem to stand, viz. : How dizzy and fearful 'tis to cast one's eyes so low, The crows and choughs,...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. * * * * The fishermen mat walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; — and yon tall anchoring bark Almost... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...foregoing hemistich. The quartos read, as one line:— " Horrible steep: hark, do you hear the sea ? " And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows,...beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; 1 dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,... | |
 | England - 1849 - 492 pages
...the fourth act in King Lear. You can fancy, under these circumstances, the force of the lines: — " Stand still : how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's...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... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - Human physiology - 1850 - 736 pages
...less than the reality. Beautifully and accurately is this effect depicted by the great dramatist: — "How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so...down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade 1 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice;... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1850 - 372 pages
...lines on this subject, and which, indeed, well describe the scene from the summit of the cliff:— " How fearful, And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so...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... | |
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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! Methinks... 
