 | George Nicholson - 1840 - 692 Seiten
...cliffs, is strikingly described by the magic pen of Shakspeare : — " How fearful And dizzy Ч is to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs,...scarce so gross as beetles ; half way down, Hangs one who gathers samphire ; dreadful trade 1 " Planta. — Upon rocks and pastures near the church, Spirœa... | |
 | 1841 - 686 Seiten
...CLOCK. ( Continued from page S.) CHAl'TER XII. (Jome on sir ; here's the place :— stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...air Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down llanos one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade ! Methinks be seems no bigger than his head : The... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 894 Seiten
...For the Table Book. — — — Stand still. How fearful And diziy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low I The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air Show...down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade I Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mire... | |
 | 1847 - 662 Seiten
...picture forth, for the gazing wonder of man in all ages, those awful cliffs of Dover, from whence " The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air,...down Hangs one that gathers samphire : dreadful trade !" There is no lack of themes — noble as any that poet ever dreamed or sighed for, suggested by our... | |
 | Visitor - 1841 - 278 Seiten
...bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. — Come on, Sir ; here's the place : — stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low...and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so large as beetles : halfway down Hangs one who gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he looks... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1842 - 338 Seiten
...me to the very brim of it. ***** EagoLr. — 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 : halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 338 Seiten
...garments. Glos. 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 ; 1 dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than... | |
 | 1845 - 622 Seiten
...enthusiasm of its owner, an enthusiasm in which all present participate, recites aloud the passage — « How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : half-way down — hut here the train rushes into the very bowels of the cliff, and the voice is lost... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 Seiten
...without feeling that there is a sublimity in the depths beneath as well as in the heights above. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...wing the midway air. Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gaihers samphire, dreadful trade! Methmks he seems no bigger than his head.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...from this view of the subject— in consequence of the check which conscience gives. DOVER CLIFFS.1 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 samphire2 — 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 samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the... 
