 | Philip Luckombe - 1764 - 344 pages
...Remembrance Shakefpear's beautiful Line Subjedt, in his Tragedy of King Lear. E 4 " There is a Cliff, whofe high and bending Head " Looks fearfully on the confined Deep — " How dizzy 'tis to caft one's Eyes fo low ! " The Crows and Choughs, that wing the midway Air, " Shew fcarce fo... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1776 - 246 pages
...is thus beautifully defcribed by Shakelpeare in his tragedy of King Lear : There is a cliff, whofe high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep How dizzy 'tis to caft -one's eyes fo low.? , The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Seem fcarce fo... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...which might be iucurred in so perilous a situation. Well did the immortal Shakespeare exclaim — • There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confm'd deep — How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! • • — The crows and coughs that wing... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1808 - 878 pages
...name of the immortal SHAKESPEARE, whose sublime description of this spot is almost without parallel. , There is a Cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deepHere's the place: — How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one'seyei so low! 'J he crows and choughs... | |
 | John Britton - 1808 - 888 pages
...the immortal SHAKESPEARE, whose sublime description of this spot is almost without parallel. There aa 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... | |
 | John Feltham - 1813 - 368 pages
...Shakespeare's Cliff, so railed from the following appropriate &&• scription in the tragedy of Lear.: There is a Cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ; How dizzy 'tis to cast one's ryes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross... | |
 | Charles Smith - 1815 - 454 pages
...coast to the east ; this cape is bold and lofty, and well answers to Shakspeare's description, that, It is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. On the western side of Cork harbour, within the mouth, is an high, round land, called Corribinypoint... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...might be incurred in so perilous a situation. Well did the immortal Shakspeare exclaim— DOVER. 435 There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep — How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so loir ! The crows and coughs that wing the midway air, Seem scarce so gross... | |
 | L. Fussell - 1818 - 322 pages
...presumed that the great Bard wrote those inimitable lines which can never fatigue by repetition : " There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 748 pages
...presumed that the great Bard wrote those inimitable lines which can never fatigue by repetition : •• There is a cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross... | |
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There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ; Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear. 
