...the depths beneath, as well as in the heights above. -" How fearful ' And di///y '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!...

...Shakspeare it was a profitable occupation to gather it. « How fearful And dizzy '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 !...

...the air, they fearlessly proceed in their operations. — " How fearful And dizzy 'tis to east 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 !...

...DOVER CLIFF. 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...air Shew 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...

...sights and sounds Gloucester's — and the audience's— "deficient sight" (23) can only visualize: 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 scarce so gross as beetles....

...Gloucester that they stand atop the cliffs of Dover. He describes the awesome view before them thus: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring...

...Edgar's portrayal of the abyss provides a kind of global emblem or figure for the play's axis of loss: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and coughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half...

...Gloucester. No, truly. Edgar. Why then, your other senses grow imperfect By your eyes' anguish. . . . Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The illusion of the third dimension is discussed at length in EH Gombrich's Art...

...it must heed Edgar's assurances and warnings, which echo Gloucester's earlier account of the cliff: "Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful / And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!" Edgar confirms Gloucester's prior knowledge of the place and plays upon the expectations...

...his role as deceiving crutch, a kind of 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! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles;...