 | Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh - Natural history - 1832 - 640 pages
...suspended in the air, they fearlessly proceed in their operations. — " How fearful And dizzy 'tis to east one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing...trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head." . SHAKSPEARE. Two ropes are employed by these men ; the one they coil round their body and one of their... | |
 | Theology - 1834 - 804 pages
...low ! The crows, and choughs, that wind the midway air, Shews scarce so gross as beetles : Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade...and yon tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : The murmuring surge. That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - Food - 1832 - 416 pages
...was a profitable occupation to gather it. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low I The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show...trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head*." ' Samphire — Crithotnum maritimvm. * King Lear, Act iv. Scene 5. A few pungent vegetables, and the... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 pages
...Cliff*, without feeling that there is a sublimity in the depths beneath, as well as in the height? above. "How fearful "And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...the midway air, "Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down "Hanga one, that gathers samphire, dreadful trade ' " Methinks he seems no bigger than... | |
 | J. Cherpilloud - French language - 1833 - 272 pages
...fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air Shew scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one...and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on the unnumber'd pebbles chafes,... | |
 | Zachariah Allen - Europe - 1833 - 440 pages
...fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Hhow scarce so gross as beetles ; half way down Hangs one...his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, g DOVER CASTLE.— BATHING CARTS. Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark Diminished to her cock;... | |
 | Baker Peter Smith - England - 1834 - 172 pages
...And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one...beach, Appear like mice : and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy, Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge That on... | |
 | Edward Stanley - Birds - 1835 - 334 pages
...most elevated hill in the island, and supposed to be the loftiest precipitous face of rock in Britain. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so...beach Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy, Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, That on... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...but forgive me !" of the dying wife of Shore in Ilowe, compared with these three little words ? CL And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows...down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade I Mi-thinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen that walk upon the heach Appear like mice;... | |
 | Periodicals - 1835 - 272 pages
...and here, if any where, we may easily realize that expressive description of our great poet. . . . ' How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low...wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles The fishermen that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminished to... | |
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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 : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon... 
