 ... down Hangs one that gathers samphire, — dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yond...  Cymbeline - Page 378by William Shakespeare - 1811Full view - About this book
 | J. L. Styan - Drama - 1967 - 260 pages
...heard the Edgar who must create the cliff: . . .The murmuring surge That on th'unnumb'red idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (King Lear, iv, vi, 20-4) As if to anticipate a new vocal function, Gloucester had twice before (lines... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1972 - 356 pages
...her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th'unnumbered idle pebble chafes Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. GLOUCESTER Set me where you stand. EDGAR Give me your hand. You are now within a foot Of th'extreme... | |
 | Yi-fu Tuan - Nature - 1990 - 284 pages
...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 chafes Cannot...turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (Act 4, scene 6). EVIDENCE OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING It is in the history of European landscape painting... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumb'red idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (11-24) The pains Shakespeare takes to create the illusion of Dover Cliff have made many readers doubt... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - Social Science - 1991 - 1434 pages
...her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumb'red idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. What Shakespeare does here is to place five flat panels of two-dimensions, one behind the other. By... | |
 | Richard Halpern - Capitalism and literature - 1991 - 340 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.6.11-24) Among other things, this imaginary landscape organizes and empowers the figures of height... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - Drama - 1993 - 290 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumber'd idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (IV.vi. 11-24) As commentators have pointed out, Edgar's speech tries to reproduce in words the recession... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on th'unnumbered idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. 145 Set me where you stand. Give me your hand. You are now within a foot Of th'extreme verge. For all... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - Drama - 1999 - 318 pages
...her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th' unnumbered idle pebble chafes Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.5.11-24) At the very moment that the ocular illusion should be at its most breathtaking and convincing,... | |
 | Susan Bruce - Drama - 1998 - 196 pages
...cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th' unnumb'red pebble chafes Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,...turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.6.11-24) . . . Hearing [Edgar's lines], Gloucester kneels, addressing the 'mighty gods', renouncing... | |
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