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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 : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!... "
The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 178
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...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...and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stapd still — how fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's...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...
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The Two Admirals: A Tale

James Fenimore Cooper - 1990 - 566 pages
...only in the imagination of his credulous uncle. Chapter II — "How fearful And dizzy 't is, to case 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!" King Lear, VI....
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The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the ...

Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 pages
...Edgar's portrayal of the abyss provides a kind of global emblem or figure for the play's axis of loss: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and coughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers...
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Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century

Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 pages
...Gloucester. No, truly. Edgar. Why then, your other senses grow imperfect By your eyes' anguish. . . . Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The illusion of the third dimension is discussed at length in EH Gombrich's Art and Illusion. Far from...
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Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear

James P. Lusardi, June Schlueter - 1991 - 260 pages
...it must heed Edgar's assurances and warnings, which echo Gloucester's earlier account of the cliff: "Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How...fearful / And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!" Edgar confirms Gloucester's prior knowledge of the place and plays upon the expectations of the audience...
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The Tragedy of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...deceived. In nothing am I changed But in my garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. ю EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand stilL How fearful...The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scaree so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks...
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After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 pages
...his role as deceiving crutch, a kind of anti-Antigone) to a "Dover Cliffs" constructed out of words: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems...
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The First Quarto of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...deceived. In nothing am I changed But in my garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful...crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...deceived: in nothing am I changed But in my garments. GLO'STER Methinks y'are better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still; how fearful...crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! GLO STER EDGAR...
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