 | Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1893 - 120 pages
...picture compared with that 15 produced by their being thus connected with and opposed to, each other ! As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy 20 By what means it could thither come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued with sense, Like... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...characteristically picturesque; see Hussey, The Picturesque 109. 52. "Resolution and Independence," stanzas 9-10: "As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie / Couched on the bald top of an eminence; . . . / Such seemed this Man." 53. Cf. the parallel phrase in The Prelude 1.77-79: "a higher power... | |
 | Gary Lee Harrison - Literary Collections - 1994 - 250 pages
...the inanimate and animate, natural and human worlds: As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie Couch'd on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who...seems a thing endued with sense: Like a Sea-beast crawl'd forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seem'd this Man,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 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...of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, 60 By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - Poetry - 1995 - 276 pages
...elaborating that its true function is to collapse and fuse apparently hierarchical orders of being: i As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. Such seemed this Man; not all alive or dead Nor all asleep, in his extreme old age. Motionless... | |
 | John Wyatt - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 300 pages
...is in the first sighting of the 'Leech-gatherer' in 'Resolution and Independence', composed in 1802: As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seemed a thing endued with sense: Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth,... | |
 | David Bromwich - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...described will take us back to the stark surroundings of Michael in the vale above Green-head Gill: "As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie / Couched on the bald top of an eminence" — so, the poet says, this man appeared to him. The weight and durability of that thinglike man or... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1918 - 868 pages
...den in die prosa eingestreuten versen (Pr. II 212) steht das neutrum im Wechsel mit dem masculinum: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf / Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. (Statt "himself" steht VJ 22, 62 "itself".) Neutrum: Pr. II 213, 1. 3. Bird (173) masc., fern.,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2000 - 788 pages
...then I drew; He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie0 Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. 70 Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep; in his extreme old age: His body was... | |
 | Michael Clark - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 272 pages
...a comment on the following passage in "Resolution and Independence," as he cites it in the Preface: As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...sense. Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shell Of rock or sand reposeth. there to sun himself. Such seemed this Man; not all alive or dead Nor... | |
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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... 
