| William Wordsworth - 1865 - 386 páginas
...compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! " As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it conld thither come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 páginas
...a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone that is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of...sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand repoeeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep ; in his... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 páginas
...the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : "As a huge stone is sometimes seen to He Couched on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to...endued with sense ; Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilized poet, the fancy becomes... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 páginas
...motionless : To the pool's farther margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thithor come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth,... | |
| 1866 - 492 páginas
...passion, crouching in my soul, Started in noble form to lure me on ?" Talfourd't " Ion," iv., 1. " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bold top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could hither come, and... | |
| Geological Society of Glasgow - 1868 - 290 páginas
...quartzose rock is seen resting near the summit of the conical hill of Dunglass, in an isolated position. "Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." It has probably been dropped by some iceberg that struck upon this sunken rock, as it was... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 páginas
...picture compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! ' As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...same espy By what means it could thither come, and whenoc, So that it seems a thing endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 páginas
...To the pool's further margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep, in his extreme old age : His... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 páginas
...of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs, IX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder lo nil who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...eye of heaven I saw a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; Such seemed this man, not all alivenordead,... | |
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