 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...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 he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 748 pages
...cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the...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... | |
 | Roads - 1819 - 274 pages
...imagination, when descrihing the i cliffs of Dover : " How Tearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as heetles." \ ' SHAKESPEARE. ' The attraction of Ben T.omond, ami its great altitnde, environ it almost... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1820 - 748 pages
...downward downward brings to mind the words of our immortal Shakspeare, " How fearful And dizzy 'lis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Shew scarce as gross as beetles. — I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 512 pages
...sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low 2 ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air,...scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade8! 1 — thy voice is alter'd ; &c.] Edgar alters his voice in... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - Scotland - 1821 - 378 pages
...imagination, when describing the cliffs of Dover : " How fearful And dizzy 'ti» to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as nettles." SHAKESPEARE. The attraction of Ben Lomond, and its great altitude, environ it almost every... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...? * * * • * 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 mid- way air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...Kames' « rule" though he had never read his « Elements of Criticism." - 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 trade ! Metninks... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...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 airr Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade... | |
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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... 
