| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 422 pages
...come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a 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... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...shape and outline, resembling many others in West Yorkshire, and reminding one of Wordsworth's simile : As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...it could thither come and whence ; So that it seems n thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock, or sand, reposcth... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 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...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
| Aubrey De Vere - English essays - 1887 - 434 pages
...stands before him — a living man — he seems to the poet as something seen "in Visions of the Lord." 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 alive... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Education - 1887 - 458 pages
...let a great poet testify ; for the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : " As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...endued with sense ; Like a sea.beast crawled forth, that on a shalf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes... | |
| Archibald Geikie - Geology - 1887 - 530 pages
...of till will be found with their scattered boulders sometimes many tons in weight. In such places ' A huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1888 - 350 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...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; X. Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1888 - 408 pages
...by him in the Preface to the 1815 edition of his Poems : — "Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." It is perhaps impertinent to call attention to the exquisite allusion to the poet having "ever beeu... | |
| William Wordsworth, William Angus Knight - 1888 - 396 pages
...come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a 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 - 1889 - 268 pages
...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. IX As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued wuh sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun... | |
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