 | 1837 - 260 pages
...to excavate and complete a double tunnel through and along the Shakspeare Cliff at Dover?" that .... cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. Surely the march of railroads and utilitarianism can no further go than this. The roar of a " first... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 pages
...fearful. Id. In such a night Did Tliiíbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow. Id. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. 1*1Cowards fear to die ; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. Raleigh. Lay... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 368 pages
...assurance thatjhey were within hearing, if not within reach, of friendly assistance^ . CHAPTER VIII. Ttiere is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ; Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I 'II repair the misery thou dost bear. King Lfar. THE shout... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 722 pages
...by the assurance that they were within hearing, if not within, reach, of friendly assistance. E :> There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep; Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear. KING LEAR. HE shout... | |
 | W. Batcheller - 1845 - 250 pages
...Shakspeare, in his tragedy of " King Lear," describes this towering precipice in the following lines : — " There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks...; here's the place : — stand still. How fearful The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so large as beetles : half way down Hangs... | |
 | John (uncle, pseud.) - 1846 - 304 pages
...being supposed to accord with the description of a cliff near Dover, given by the poet, in his play of King Lear : — There is a cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confused deep ; How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eye so low — The crows and choughs that wiz the midway... | |
 | William Joseph O'Neill Daunt - 1851 - 348 pages
...which he was placed upon a low-backed car I had provided, and thence trundled home. CHAPTER XVI. " There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ; Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear." King Lear. THERE... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress or — a nunnery. — Byron LEAD. LEAF. LEAP. 397 LEAD. THERE is a cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep: Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I 'll repair the misery thou dost bear, With something rich... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...its great sweep. "Bending" has the game вспзэ, of Dover cliff, in " K. Lear," a. iv. s. l : — There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. And in the "Faithful Shepherdess," "bending plain," p. 105. Jonson has "bending ' rale," vii. 39.—... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 612 pages
...assurance that they were within hearing, if not within reach, of friendly assistance. CHAPTER VIII. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ; Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear. King Lear. THE shout... | |
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There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ; Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear. 
