 | George Nicholson - 1840 - 692 pages
...cliffs, is strikingly described by the magic pen of Shakspeare : — " How fearful And dizzy Ч is to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs,...scarce so gross as beetles ; half way down, Hangs one who gathers samphire ; dreadful trade 1 " Planta. — Upon rocks and pastures near the church, Spirœa... | |
 | 1841 - 686 pages
...Parishioners, Your faithful Servant. 24 THE OLD CHURCH CLOCK. ( Continued from page S.) CHAl'TER XII. (Jome on sir ; here's the place :— stand still. — How...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... | |
 | Visitor - 1841 - 278 pages
...lines : — " There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. — Come on, Sir ; here's the place : — stand still....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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 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 - Days - 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... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - Coasts - 1842 - 338 pages
...bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep : Bring me to the very brim of it. ***** EagoLr. — Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand Still....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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...II1 better phrase and matter than thou didst. Edg. You are much deceived : in nothing um I changed But in my garments. Glo. Methinks you are better spoken....! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down ! lаngs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 338 pages
...am I changed But in my garments. Glos. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here 's the place : stand still. — How fearful And dizzy...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...from this view of the subject— in consequence of the check which conscience gives. DOVER CLIFFS.1 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 samphire2 — dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 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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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, dreadful trade! Methinks... 
