 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 Seiten
...eye of heaven I saw a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray haira. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie, Couched...and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with senso : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.... | |
 | Edwin Lees - 1856 - 360 Seiten
...northern precipice, seen in solitary dignity, it makes a bold appearance on the edge of the hill : " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." Wordsworth. From very ancient times uncouth and monstrous fragments of rock and isolated stones, as... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 Seiten
...and down my fancy thus was driven, And I with these untoward thoughts had striven.— Edit. 1815. * As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...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 body... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 Seiten
...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...endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. Such seemed this Man ; not all alive... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 Seiten
...drew, He being all the while before me Ml in view. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couch'd on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it could thither coiue, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawl'd forth, which... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 Seiten
...drew. He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couch'd on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it could thither corne, and wher."o, So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast erawl'd forth, which... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 Seiten
...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 the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all that do the same espy, By what means it could thither come and whence, So that it seems a thing endued... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick S. Wiseman (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1859 - 386 Seiten
...verify the beautiful description of the poet, — " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couoh'd on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy, * Saussure, "Voyage dans les A Ipes," tom. iv. p. 414. Ure, "New System of Geology :" Lond. 1829, p.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1865 - 448 Seiten
...thoughts had striven, 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...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 body... | |
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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... 
