 As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 128by William Wordsworth - 1827Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...saw a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge atone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of...thither come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endned with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...eye 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...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; x Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age : His body... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age : His body... | |
 | Archibald Geikie, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - Geology - 1865 - 398 pages
...means it could thither come and whence, So that it seems a thing indued with sense, Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." 1 Unhappily, the progress of modern agriculture is inimical to the preservation of these stones, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...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...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilized poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful simile ; to a savage poet, it would have become... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Geology - 1868 - 290 pages
...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 borne along... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! • A» a huge stone ti tometimet Mm to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what meani It conld thither come, and whence, Bo that It aeemi A thing endued with aenie, Like a tea-beast... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 pages
...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... | |
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