 | 1824 - 452 頁
...And dizzy ti» to cast one's eye* so lowl The crows and chongbs, that wing the midway air Sbew rearce so gross as beetles ; half way down, Hangs one that gathers samphire: dreadful trade ! Melhinks be seems no bigfer than his head ; Ihe bkcrmra, that walk upon ihe beach, Appear fike mice;... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 頁
...that grow In our sustaining corn. DESCRIPTION OF DOVER CLIFF. Come on, sir ; here's the place;—stand still.— How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! [air, The crows, and choughs§, that wing the midway Show scarce so gross as beetles; Half way down... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1826 - 446 頁
...soon learns to eat raw or dressed meat, bread, and soft grain, but will not eat common worms. • " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles." THE MAGPIE. PIANET. (Corvus Pica, Linn. — La Pie, Buffi) LENGTH about eighteen inches. Bill strong... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1990 - 566 頁
...only in the imagination of his credulous uncle. Chapter II —"How fearful And dizzy 't is, to case 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!" King... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 頁
...Edgar's portrayal of the abyss provides a kind of global emblem or figure for the play's axis of loss: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and coughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - 1991 - 1434 頁
...Gloucester. No, truly. Edgar. Why then, your other senses grow imperfect By your eyes' anguish.... Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy ‘tis to cast one's eyes so low! The illusion of the third dimension is discussed at length in EH Gombrich's Art and Illusion. Far from... | |
 | James P. Lusardi, June Schlueter - 1991 - 260 頁
...it must heed Edgar's assurances and warnings, which echo Gloucester's earlier account of the cliff: "Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How...fearful / And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!" Edgar confirms Gloucester's prior knowledge of the place and plays upon the expectations of the audience... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - 1993 - 290 頁
...his role as deceiving crutch, a kind of anti-Antigone) to a "Dover Cliffs" constructed out of words: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 頁
...deceived: in nothing am I changed But in my garments. GLO'STER Methinks y'are better spoken. EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still; how fearful...low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers sampire — dreadful trade! GLO... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 頁
...mind two somewhat similar texts: Edgar's putative account of the view from Dover Cliffs in King Lear ("How fearful / And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes...low! / The crows and choughs that wing the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles" [3.6.11-24]) and Johnson's comment on Edgar's speech to the effect... | |
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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!... 
