 | 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Geology - 1873 - 306 pages
...lines about these mysterious wanderers, of which he had seen many a one about his native hills:— " 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." Yes; but the next time you see such... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Christian life - 1873 - 312 pages
...about these mysterious wanderers, of which he had seen many a one about his native hills : — "Asa huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." Yes ; but the next time you see such... | |
 | John Ellor Taylor - Geology - 1874 - 336 pages
...age, of which we Crag-beds are the English representatives. CHAPTER XIV. THE STORY OF A BOULDER. ' As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie. Couched...endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth — there to sun itself." WORDSWOKTH. EW of my fellow story-tellers... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...characteristic of Wordsworth. Cf. a still more powerfully imaginative passage in Resolution and Independancc. " 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. " Scattered stones in \\iltshire are... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 802 pages
...further on is a symbol of a different kind. On the top of a rounded knoll lies a monstrous boulder— Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. A noble chair it would make for [a professor of geology. To me it recalls an eastern legend which I... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 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...could thither come, and whence, So that it seems a tlling endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 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 the bald top of au eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it could thither come, and whence, So... | |
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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... 
