 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...  A History of British Birds - Sivu 93tekijä(t) Thomas Bewick - 1826Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 sivua
...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 low ! The crows, and choughs,* that winz the midway air, ähow scarce so gross as beetles : Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 sivua
...is a sublimity in 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!... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1857 - 526 sivua
...Gloster, says : " Come on, Sir, here's the place ; stand still ; how fearful, And dizzy 'tis, to cast ones eyes so low !— The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air Shew scarce so big as beetles : Half-way down, Hangs one, that gathers Samphire ; —(Act 4, Scene 6 .) The difference... | |
 | 1905 - 442 sivua
...gathering is still quite a lucrative industry, as it apparently was in Shakespeare's time : " .... 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!"... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 sivua
...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. Half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1990 - 566 sivua
...only in the imagination of his credulous uncle. Chapter II — "How fearful And dizzy 't is, to case 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!" King... | |
 | Yi-fu Tuan - 1990 - 284 sivua
...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 bark Diminish'd to her... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 sivua
...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 way down Hangs one that gathers... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 sivua
...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 and Illusion. Far from... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 sivua
...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; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
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