| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad one. 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 as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he... | |
| John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 888 pages
...aa Cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep — Here's the place : — 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 - 1808 - 432 pages
...alter'd, But my garments. Glost. Methinks, you're better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir, here's the place. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so big as beetles ; half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! The fishermen, that... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 424 pages
...You are much deceiv'd; in nothing am I alter'd, But my garments. Edg. Come on, sir, here's the place. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so big as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! The fishermen, that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...growing giddy must have a good head, or a very bad one. " Come on, Sir, here's the piaee: stand still ! how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...and choughs that wing the midway air. Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 384 pages
...sir ; here's the place: — stand still.— How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low !5 The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air,...down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade !a Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beachi s ' Hem fearful... | |
| Thomas Garnett - Highlands (Scotland) - 1811 - 402 pages
...approaching it, we were instantly reminded of SHAKSPEARE'S striking description of the cliffs of Dover; How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. * This theory of the formation of springs and rivers may be illustrated by bringing a bottle filled... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 94 pages
...alter'd, But my garments. Gldst. Methinks, you're better spoken. Eds;. Come on, sir, here's the place. How fearful And dizzy tis, to cast one's eyes so low...choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so big as beetles ; half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! The fishermen, that... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 628 pages
...growing giddy, must have a good head, or a very bad one. Come on, Sir, here's the place. Stand still ! How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low...crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 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...Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs oue that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen,... | |
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