 | 1905 - 442 pages
...gathering is still quite a lucrative industry, as it apparently was in Shakespeare's time : " .... How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...Hangs one that gathers samphire — dreadful trade!" Dover cliffs were celebrated for this plant. Drayton speaks of " Dover's neighbouring cleeves of samphyre,"... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...audience's— "deficient sight" (23) can only visualize: Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the... | |
 | 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...Hangs one that gathers samphire: dreadful trade!" King Lear, VI. vi. 1 1-15 T JL. H HIS digression on the family of Wychecombe has led us far from the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1990 - 324 pages
...garments. 10 Gloucester Methinks you're better spoken. Edgar Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; halfway down Regan Fare you well. [They go] Scene 6 The countryside near Dover. Gloucester enters,... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 pages
...explicit here. There is also the need to fix the gaze: Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. ю EDGAR 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 scaree so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 pages
...anti-Antigone) to a "Dover Cliffs" constructed out of words: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pages
...mind two somewhat similar texts: Edgar's putative account of the view from Dover Cliffs in King Lear ("How fearful / And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes...the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles" [3.6.11-24]) and Johnson's comment on Edgar's speech to the effect that (to quote Bayley's footnote)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...garments. GLO'STER Methinks y'are better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still; how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! GLO STER EDGAR GLO STER EDGAR GLO'STER... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
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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! 
