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" Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy '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!... "
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His ... - Page 120
by Joseph Addison - 1811
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Lessings Werke, Volume 4

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - German literature - 1766 - 534 pages
...©lofter auf bie äufjerfte ©pifce be§ §ügel§ fü^rt, bon weldger er fid) ^erabftürjen тШ*! 25 — Come on, Sir, Here's the place; stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles....
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

1838 - 358 pages
...The exquisite description of Dover Cliff in Lear came across me, and I could not help exclaiming, " How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Seem scarce so gross as beetles ! Halfway down, Hangs one that gathers samphire — dreadful trade...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....

William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...much deceiv'd; in nothing am I chang'd, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place : —stand still.—...fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! 1'he crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down...
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Du Laocoon, ou, Des limites respectives de la poésie et de la peinture: tr ...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1802 - 410 pages
...Voici la cime ; ne bougez pas. Q quelle terreur ! cornnre la tête tourne en plongeant And dizzy 'lis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing thé midway air Shew scarce so gross as be«tles. Half way down Hangs one that gatliers samphire ;...
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Du Laocoon, ou des limites respectives de la poésie et de la peinture

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Aesthetics - 1802 - 410 pages
...Voici la cime ; ne bougez pas. O quelle terreur ! comme la tête tourne en plongeant And dizey 'lis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing thé midway air Sliew scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gàthers samphire ;...
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An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 ...

Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...delight round the whole circumference of the horizon. On approaching the verge of the mountain — " How fearful " And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! #**•»# " The fishermen that walk upon the beach " Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark " Diminished to...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...deceiv'd ; in nothing am I chang'd, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand still....dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs,8 that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that...
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The Tatler, Volume 3

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...have related still dwells so strongly upon me, that I can never read the description of Dover Cliff in Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, without a fresh...wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire — Dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...much deceiv'd; in nothing am I chang'd, But in my garments. Glo. Methinks, you are better spoken. Edg. Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. —...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...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 500 pages
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