 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 386 Seiten
...compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! " As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it conld thither come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled... | |
 | Archibald Geikie, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - 1865 - 398 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 Seiten
...a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone that is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of...endued with sense : ' Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand repoeeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1868 - 290 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
