| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...much deceived : in nothing um I changed But in my garments. Glo. Methinks you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. —...! 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... | |
| Edward Parry - 1843 - 252 pages
...nutrition, suspended over the cliffs in rope, Shakespeare might well describe as a fearful rade! " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air. Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down, Hangs one who gathers samphire. Dreadful trade !" The... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...better spoken. EJg. Come on, sir ; here 'a the place : — stand still.— How fearful And dizzy 't is 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 ! Methinks... | |
| 1835 - 638 pages
...nothing certain iut uncertainty ;' and I to repeat after them — ' What lolknow?' THE PRECIPICE. " Here's the place : — stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low." — SHARSPEARE. THE inhahitant of a level country can form no idea of the influence which mountams... | |
| Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1844 - 356 pages
...co'uld not help taking another peep at the fearful precipices below us, and thought with Edgar : — " How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and hawks that wing the midway air Shew scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pages
...: Full oft 'tis seen Our meanness succours us ; and our mere defects Prove our commodities. IV. 6. EDGAR. Come on, sir, here's the place : — stand...fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low, &c. The incident of the cliff is so extravagantly improbable that there is no defending it, and we... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 428 pages
...oft 'tis seen Oar meanness succours us ; and our mere defects Prove our commodities. IV. 6. EDOAB. Come on, sir, here's the place : — stand still....fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low, &c. The incident of the cliff is so extravagantly improbable that there is no defending it, and we... | |
| W. H. Leigh - 1847 - 244 pages
...serves — you are now 4,000 feet above them, and well may we exclaim with the immortal William— ' How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice : and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...down from its edge into the chasm inspires a feeling answering to the words of Shakspeare : — *' Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand still....fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! " Few have resolution enough to walk to the parapet, in order to peep over it. But if the view from... | |
| 1848 - 556 pages
...delight round the whole circumference of the horizon. On appoaching the verge of the mountain," — How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! » * * * * The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice ; and yon, tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her... | |
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