| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...Methinks, 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, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade !... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...as actually present to the speaker. Come on, sir, here's the place — stand still. How dreadful 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! Methinks... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 410 pages
...have a good head, or a very bad one. " 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 as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade !... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 332 pages
...have a good head, or a very •bad one. 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 as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire—Dreadful trade'. Methinks... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 pages
...of pleasure mixed with the pain, witness Shakspeare's description of Dover cliffs : How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway-air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin. PRECIPICE. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows,...wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 pages
...unrivalled description of the cliffs of Dover. " 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 Mcthinks... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 444 pages
...garments. Glost. Methinks you're better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir, here's the place. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so big as beetles ; half way down ; Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade !... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...Mcthinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; hereVthe 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 ;9 dreadful trade!... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...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*, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire f ; dreadful trade !... | |
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