 Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3691817Full view - About this book
 | Bernard Brugière - 1995 - 344 pages
...sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. l'11 look no more, Lest my brain turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong9. [King Lear, IV, 5, 11-24] Mais en quelques mots, comme le mage de L'Illusion comique, Edgar... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd idle pebbles chases, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. King Lear, Act 4. Scene 6. An observation is made above, that the emotions of grandeur and sublimity... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 1997 - 532 pages
...fearfully in the confined deep," and Edgar knows that cliff well enough to savor the vertigo he risks: "I'll look no more, /Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight /Topple down headlong" (4.6.22-24). One of the sad and chilling aspects of the cliff scene is that Gloucester cannot even... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - 1999 - 318 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th' unnumbered idle pebble chafes Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.5.11-24) At the very moment that the ocular illusion should be at its most breathtaking and convincing,... | |
 | Susan Bruce - 1998 - 196 pages
...cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th' unnumb'red pebble chafes Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.6.11-24) . . . Hearing [Edgar's lines], Gloucester kneels, addressing the 'mighty gods', renouncing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...Edgar is pretending to be someone else. Why does he still think it unwise to reveal his true identity? Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. GLOUCESTER Set me where you stand. EDGAR Give me your hand; you are now within a foot 25 Of th'extreme... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...for sight. The murmuring surge 20 That on the unnumbered idle pebble chafes 21 Cannot be heard, it's so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. 24 GLOUCESTER Set me where you stand. EDGAR Give me your hand. You are now within a foot Of th' extreme... | |
 | Christopher Pye - 2000 - 220 pages
...description of the threat posed by the vertiginous view: How fearful 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.6.H-24)12 To account for the scene's power to "topple" sight, it is necessary to recognize what... | |
 | Harry Levin - 2000 - 170 pages
...blindness of Gloucester while commenting on the trepidation of heights — 100 Scenes from Shakespeare I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. This may strike the average reader or hearer with a distant, dizzying, vertiginous impact; Addison... | |
 | John Thelwall - 2001 - 464 pages
...buoy "Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, "That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chases, "Cannot be heard so high. — I'll look no more; "Lest...my brain turn, and the deficient sight "Topple down headlong"155 This description is certainly copiously magnificent; the various objects successively... | |
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