...stage - and of language - to realize what the lines represent. II. Perspectives Here are Edgar's lines: Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful...beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire - dreadful trade; Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach...

...turning this illusion into a second-party narration for a blind man who, after all, cannot see anything: Come on sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful...beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, the dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach...

...cliff-haunting chough, your chough graculus or Pyrochorax, when he has Edgar at Dover in King Lear pronounce Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Chapter Eight Which is mostly about choughs...

...Hofland had quoted some lines from King Lear which might be suggested by one precipitous view: 'Here lies the place stand still. How fearful, and dizzy 'tis,...and choughs, that wing the mid-way air, show scarce as gross as beetles.' The hea\y rain intensified a mood of Shakespearean tragedy. Mrs Hofland well...

...deceived; in nothing am I changed But in my garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks you're better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...gross as beetles; halfway down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon...

...and despairing father to what Gloucester takes to be the cliffs of Dover. Edgar describes the view: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...gross as beetles; halfway down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the...

...creates a wonderful word picture to persuade his father that they are teetering on an awful brink: How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.2 (4.5.11-16) This is cogent verse and impossible...

...GLOUCESTER Methinks you 're better spoken . 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Standstill. Howfearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows...beetles . Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade ! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. 2 up it now] F; itvpnowQ 7speak'st]...

...friendly stranger helps him up, exclaiming about his miraculous survival. The stranger A fearful precipice How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!...beetles; halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fisheimen that walk upon the beach Appear...

...muse of Shakespeare took from the airy brow, and afterwards from the terrific base, of Dover cliffs. "How fearful "And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...beetles: halfway down "Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! "Methinks he seems no bigger than his load: "The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,...