 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 518 pages
...garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stapd still — how fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...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... | |
 | 1832 - 412 pages
...southern shores ; and even in the time of Shakspeare it was a profitable occupation to gather it. " 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 samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 340 pages
...garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. ю EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand stilL How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low....The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scaree so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 pages
...anti-Antigone) to a "Dover Cliffs" constructed out of words: 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! Methinks he seems no bigger than his... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pages
...mind two somewhat similar texts: Edgar's putative account of the view from Dover Cliffs in King Lear ("How fearful / And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes...the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles" [3.6.11-24]) and Johnson's comment on Edgar's speech to the effect that (to quote Bayley's footnote)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...garments. GLO'STER Methinks y'are better spoken. EDGAR 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! GLO STER EDGAR GLO STER EDGAR GLO'STER... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR 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 samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And di22y 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | Bernard Brugière - 1995 - 344 pages
...détails, de mesures précises, de repères familiers : 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! Methinks he seems no bigger than lus... | |
 | William C. Carroll - 1996 - 268 pages
...with new clothing and altered speech. The famous image that Edgar creates of the view from the cliff ("the crows and choughs that wing the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles") contains perhaps more detail than even Gloucester needs to convince him of where he stands (he has... | |
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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... 
