 | William C. Carroll - Drama - 1996 - 268 pages
...with new clothing and altered speech. The famous image that Edgar creates of the view from the cliff ("the crows and choughs that wing the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles") contains perhaps more detail than even Gloucester needs to convince him of where he stands (he has... | |
 | Alisa Solomon - Art - 1997 - 232 pages
...stage is flat, but Edna convinces with the power of her evocative words: How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that...scarce 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... | |
 | American essays - 1997 - 264 pages
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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 : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon... 
