 | 1841 - 686 pages
...CLOCK. ( Continued from page S.) CHAl'TER XII. (Jome on sir ; here's the place :— stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...air Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down llanos one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade ! Methinks be seems no bigger than his head : The... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...picture forth, for the gazing wonder of man in all ages, those awful cliffs of Dover, from whence " The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air,...down Hangs one that gathers samphire : dreadful trade !" There is no lack of themes — noble as any that poet ever dreamed or sighed for, suggested by our... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 894 pages
...For the Table Book. — — — Stand still. How fearful And diziy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low I The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air Show...down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade I Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mire... | |
 | Visitor - 1841 - 278 pages
...bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. — Come on, Sir ; here's the place : — stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low...and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so large as beetles : halfway down Hangs one who gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he looks... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1842 - 338 pages
...me to the very brim of it. ***** EagoLr. — Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand Still. — 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 gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | 1842 - 380 pages
...supposed to be the loftiest precipitous face of rock in Britain. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast ones eyes so low ! The Crows and Choughs, that wing the...air, Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hani's one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head ; The... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1843 - 492 pages
...existing only in the imagination of his credulous uncle. CHAPTER II. -" How fearful And dizzy 't is, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs,...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire : dreadful trade!" Kma LEAR. THIS digression on the family... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 338 pages
...garments. Glos. 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...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; 1 dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 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.... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 604 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 — but hero tlio train rushes into the very bowels of the cliff, and the voice is... | |
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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! 
