 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 424 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 brows and 6houghs, that wing the midway-air, Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Shew... | |
 | English essays - 1820 - 736 pages
...downward downward bring» to mind the word» of our immortal Shakspeáre, " Ho« fearful And dizzy '»is, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Shew icarce at gross as beetles. - I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 512 pages
...on, sir; here's the place:—stand still.—How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low a ! 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 3 ! 1 — thy voice is alter'd ; &c.]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...on, sir; here's the place:—stand still.—How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low a ! 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 3 ! 1 — thy voice is alter'd; &c.]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...Edg. Gome on, Sir; here's the place:—Stai Glo. Methinks you are better spokeu. still.—How 1'earful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and chough's *, that wing the midwj air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles: half-way down Hangs one that... | |
 | Classical philology - 1822 - 410 pages
...style of writing, and succeeded in all that he has tried, stands preeminent in power of description. And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows...gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - Kent (England) - 1822 - 300 pages
...Cliff", »hose big h and bending head Looks fearfully upon the confined deep.— Here'« the place :—how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes...The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show «caree so gros» as beetles :—Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany, Economic - 1822 - 446 pages
...dainty sought after with extreme danger, we have only to extract a few lines from our immortal bard, " 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 trade! Methinks... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...Shakspeare observes Lord Kames' « rule" though he had never read his « Elements of Criticism." - 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 Metninks he seems no bigger than his head. Hangs one... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 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 : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; 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; halfway down Hangs one that gathers 
