 | William Shakespeare - 1762 - 478 pages
...excefs, And each man have enough. Do'ft thou know Davtrf Eiig. Ay, mafter. G/o. There is a cliff, whofe high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep : Bring me but to the very brim'trf it, And I'll repair the mifery, thoii do'ft bear, With fomething rich about me; from that... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Colman, Nahum Tate - 1768 - 98 pages
...happier : heav'ns deal fo ftill ! Doft thou know Dover ? Edg. Ay, mafler. Glo. There is a clifT, whofe high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep : Bring me but to the very brink of it, And I'll repair the mifery thou doft bear, With fomething rich about me : from that place... | |
 | George Colman - 1777 - 340 pages
...ftill. Doll thou know Dover ? , Edgar. Ay, mafter. Glod There isacliff, whofe high and bendinghead Looks fearfully on the confined deep : Bring me but to the very brink of it, And I'll repair the mifery thou doft bear, With fomething rich about me : from that place... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...which might be iucurred in so perilous a situation. Well did the immortal Shakespeare exclaim — • There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confm'd deep — How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! • • — The crows and coughs that wing... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1808 - 878 pages
...name of the immortal SHAKESPEARE, whose sublime description of this spot is almost without parallel. , There is a Cliff whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deepHere's the place: — How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one'seyei so low! 'J he crows and choughs... | |
 | John Britton - 1808 - 888 pages
...the immortal SHAKESPEARE, whose sublime description of this spot is almost without parallel. There 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 low ! The crows and choughs... | |
 | John Feltham - 1813 - 368 pages
...Shakespeare's Cliff, so railed from the following appropriate &&• scription in the tragedy of Lear.: There is a Cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep ; How dizzy 'tis to cast one's ryes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew... | |
 | Charles Smith - 1815 - 454 pages
...coast to the east ; this cape is bold and lofty, and well answers to Shakspeare's description, that, It is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. On the western side of Cork harbour, within the mouth, is an high, round land, called Corribinypoint... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...might be incurred in so perilous a situation. Well did the immortal Shakspeare exclaim— DOVER. 435 There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep — How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so loir ! The crows and coughs that wing the midway air, Seem... | |
 | L. Fussell - 1818 - 322 pages
...presumed that the great Bard wrote those inimitable lines which can never fatigue by repetition : " There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. How dizzy 'tis to cast ones eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce... | |
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There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear With something rich about me. From that place I shall no leading need. 
