 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1994 - 376 страници
...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...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 that (to quote... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 страници
...Methinks y'are better spoken. 10 EDGAR Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And di22y '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! 15 Methinks he... | |
 | Bernard Brugière - 1995 - 344 страници
...perspectives naturalistes toutes deux à force de détails, de mesures précises, de repères familiers : Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...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 he seems... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - 1999 - 318 страници
...turning this illusion into a second-party narration for a blind man who, after all, cannot see anything: Come on sir, here's the place. Stand still. How fearful...crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, the dreadful trade! Methinks he... | |
 | Robert Nye - 1999 - 428 страници
...cliff-haunting chough, your chough graculus or Pyrochorax, when he has Edgar at Dover in King Lear pronounce Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Chapter Eight Which... | |
 | Gillian Darley - 1999 - 380 страници
...Hofland had quoted some lines from King Lear which might be suggested by one precipitous view: 'Here lies the place stand still. How fearful, and dizzy 'tis,...the mid-way air, show scarce as gross as beetles.' The hea\y rain intensified a mood of Shakespearean tragedy. Mrs Hofland well knew Soane's needs. Of... | |
 | Susan Bruce - 1998 - 196 страници
...stage - and of language - to realize what the lines represent. II. Perspectives Here are Edgar's lines: Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 страници
...deceived. In nothing am I changed 10 But in my garments. GLOUCESTER Methinks 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! 13 The crows and choughs that wing the midway air 14 Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down... | |
 | Christopher Pye - 2000 - 220 страници
...and despairing father to what Gloucester takes to be the cliffs of Dover. Edgar describes the view: Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful...crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; halfway down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 страници
...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!...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... | |
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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!... 
