Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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... "
The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ... - Page 247
by William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 460 pages
Full view - About this book

Cosmos, Volume 10

1905 - 442 pages
...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...Hangs one that gathers samphire — dreadful trade!" Dover cliffs were celebrated for this plant. Drayton speaks of " Dover's neighbouring cleeves of samphyre,"...
Full view - About this book

Shakespeare's Dramatic Transactions

Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...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...gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the...
Limited preview - About this book

The Two Admirals: A Tale

James Fenimore Cooper - 1990 - 566 pages
...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...Hangs one that gathers samphire: dreadful trade!" King Lear, VI. vi. 1 1-15 T JL. H HIS digression on the family of Wychecombe has led us far from the...
Limited preview - About this book

The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the ...

Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 pages
...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;...seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk along the beach Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock, her cock a buoy...
Limited preview - About this book

Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century

Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 pages
...explicit here. There is also the need to fix the gaze: Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his...
Limited preview - About this book

After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 pages
...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!...gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the...
Limited preview - About this book

King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...garments. GLO'STER Methinks y'are better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still; 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 sampire — dreadful trade! GLO STER EDGAR GLO STER EDGAR GLO'STER...
Limited preview - About this book

The First Quarto of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. 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 samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than...
Limited preview - About this book

Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada

D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 pages
...mind two somewhat similar texts: Edgar's putative account of the view from Dover Cliffs in King Lear ("How fearful / And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes...the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles" [3.6.11-24]) and Johnson's comment on Edgar's speech to the effect that (to quote Bayley's footnote)...
Limited preview - About this book

L'espace littéraire dans la littérature et la culture anglo-saxonnes

Bernard Brugière - 1995 - 344 pages
...détails, de mesures précises, de repères familiers : Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. 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 sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than lus...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF