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" tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 438
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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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...
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The Late Mr. Shakespeare

Robert Nye - 1999 - 428 pages
...Pyrochorax, when he has Edgar at Dover in King Lear pronounce 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! Chapter Eight Which is mostly about choughs but has no choughs in it When...
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The Space of the Stage

Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - 1999 - 318 pages
...narration for a blind man who, after all, cannot see anything: 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 samphire, the dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than...
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John Soane: An Accidental Romantic

Gillian Darley - 1999 - 380 pages
...from King Lear which might be suggested by one precipitous view: 'Here lies the place stand still. How fearful, and dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...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...
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The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

Christopher Pye - 2000 - 220 pages
...takes to be the cliffs of Dover. Edgar describes the view: 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 head....
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Henry V, War Criminal?: And Other Shakespeare Puzzles

John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...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!...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...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...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles . Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade ! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 148 pages
...you're better spoken. EDGAR 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...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...
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The Peripatetic

John Thelwall - 2001 - 464 pages
...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...the midway air, "Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down "Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! "Methinks he seems no bigger than his...
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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy

George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 pages
...supposed brink, and vividly describes the dizzy precipice over which Gloucester thinks they stand: 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 samphire, dreadful trade! . . . (iv. vi. 1z) Gloucester thanks...
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