...we feel a sort of pleasure mixed with the pain : witness Shakspeare's description of Dover clifis : -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...

...am I chang'd, Sut in my garments. Glo. Mcthinks, you are better spoken. Edg. 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,8 that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down ¡längs one that...

...our encampment appeared reduced to a diminutive size. " How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eye so low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles." The soil which results from the gradual disintegration of this rock, is nearly a pure sand. On descending...

...of a mile sheer descent. See Shakspeare's marvelous measure (King Lear, ac,t iv, scene vi) : " How dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low. The crows and choughs that wiog the midway air Seem scarce so gross as beetles." Sometimes the waves eat away even the base of...

...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...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 Bayley's footnote)...

...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...wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! 15 Methinks he seems no bigger than...

...toutes deux à force de détails, de mesures précises, de repères familiers : Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis...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...

...with new clothing and altered speech. The famous image that Edgar creates of the view from the cliff ("the crows and choughs that wing the midway air / Show scarce so gross as beetles") contains perhaps more detail than even Gloucester needs to convince him of where he stands (he has...

...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 And dizzy 'tis...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...

...to realize what the lines represent. II. Perspectives Here are Edgar's lines: Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis...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...