| Edwin Lankester - 1832 - 416 pages
...southern shores ; and even in the time of Shakspeare it was a profitable occupation to gather it. " 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 : half way down Hangs one... | |
| Zachariah Allen - 1833 - 440 pages
...confined deep. Bring me to the very brim of it ; — 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, Hhow scarce so gross as beetles ; half way down Hangs... | |
| 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 low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles — half way down Hangs... | |
| Yi-fu Tuan - 1990 - 284 pages
...Dover. He describes the awesome view before them thus: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring... | |
| 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 low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one... | |
| Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 pages
...of global emblem or figure for the play's axis of loss: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and coughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one... | |
| Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 pages
...other senses grow imperfect By your eyes' anguish. . . . Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The illusion of the third dimension is discussed at length in EH Gombrich's Art and Illusion. Far from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring barque Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, 20... | |
| 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! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring barque Diminished to her cock, her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge 20 That... | |
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