 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - 1999 - 318 pages
...narration for a blind man who, after all, cannot see anything: Come on sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, the dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | Robert Nye - 1999 - 428 pages
...Pyrochorax, when he has Edgar at Dover in King Lear pronounce Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Chapter Eight Which is mostly about choughs... | |
 | Gillian Darley - 1999 - 380 pages
...from King Lear which might be suggested by one precipitous view: 'Here lies the place stand still. How fearful, and dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...and choughs, that wing the mid-way air, show scarce as gross as beetles.' The hea\y rain intensified a mood of Shakespearean tragedy. Mrs Hofland well... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - 1999 - 250 pages
...SY9te Virgin fu«! Shakespearean contexts, with the latter also containing midway and halfway images: "The crows and choughs that wing the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down / Hangs one who gathers samphire" (King Lear 4.6.13-15). The verb "hangs" shows "a slight... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...creates a wonderful word picture to persuade his father that they are teetering on an awful brink: How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his... | |
 | Christopher Pye - 2000 - 220 pages
...takes to be the cliffs of Dover. Edgar describes the view: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; halfway down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...GLOUCESTER Methinks you 're better spoken . 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Standstill. Howfearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles . Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade ! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2000 - 330 pages
...Garments. GLOSTER Methinks y'are better Spoken. EDGAR Come on, Sir, here's the Place, how fearfull And dizy 'tis to cast one's Eyes so Low. The Crows and Choughs that wing the Mid-way Air Shew scarce so big as Beetles, halfway down Hangs one that gathers Sampire, dreadfull Trade! The Fisher-men... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 36 pages
...friendly stranger helps him up, exclaiming about his miraculous survival. The stranger A fearful precipice How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his... | |
 | John Thelwall - 2001 - 464 pages
...muse of Shakespeare took from the airy brow, and afterwards from the terrific base, of Dover cliffs. "How fearful "And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...the midway air, "Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down "Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! "Methinks he seems no bigger than his... | |
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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... 
