 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... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 889 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 1997 - 264 pages
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 | 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... | |
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