 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...but as actually 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...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 332 pages
...growing giddy must have a good 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!...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 seems... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 864 pages
...growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad " Come on, Sir, here 's the place : stand still ! how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823
...growing giddy must have a good 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?...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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 pages
...we feel a sort of pleasure mixed with the pain, witness Shakspeare's description of Dover cliffs : 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... | |
 | George Roberts - 1823 - 442 pages
...this spot : There is a cliff whose high and bended head Looks fearfully on the confined deep;— How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pages
...witness Shakespeare's description of Dover cliffs : -How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one^s eye eo 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place: — Stand -fill. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and (houghs,i that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire f ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 510 pages
...garments. Glo. Mcthinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; hereVthe place :— Stand still. —How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ;9 dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than... | |
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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... 
