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" 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 : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!... "
The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 178
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...the ground is even. Ed(j. • • Horribly steep: Hark ! do you hear the sea ? * * * • * Edg. — Come on, Sir ; here's the place : stand still ! How...eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the mid- way air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...much deceived ; in nothing am I changed, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks you are better spokeu. Edg. Come on, Sir ; here's the place :— Stand still....dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and chough's*, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles: half-way down Hangs one that...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...deceiv'd ; in nothing am I chang'd, But in my garments. GLo. Methinks, you are better spoken. EDG. Come on, sir ; here's the place: — stand still....fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low 2 ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down...
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An Account of the Principal Pleasure Tours in Scotland: with a Copious ...

Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - Scotland - 1821 - 378 pages
...imagination, when describing the cliffs of Dover : " How fearful And dizzy 'ti» to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as nettles." SHAKESPEARE. The attraction of Ben Lomond, and its great altitude, environ it...
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History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical ..., Volume 2

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...! 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 !...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 20

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 Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Metninks...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 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 and choughs, that wing the midway airr Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade...
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The British Essayists: Tatler

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 414 pages
...proper incidents, that whoever can read it without growing giddy must have a good head, or a verybad one. " Come on, Sir, here's the place : stand still...wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Troilus and ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...deceiv'd ; in nothing am-I chang'd. But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place :—stand still.—...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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...much deceiv'd; in nothing am I chang'd, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place ; — stand still....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...
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