 | Archibald Geikie - 1887 - 530 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 Seiten
...connected with, and opposed to, each other! — 'As a huge sione is sometimes seen to tie Couched on ihe bald top of an eminence. Wonder to all who do the...By what means it could thither come. and whence So thai ii seems a thine endued with sense. Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shell Of rock or... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 Seiten
...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 - 1994 - 250 Seiten
...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 - 1994 - 628 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...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 - 1995 - 276 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | John Wyatt - 1995 - 300 Seiten
...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 - 2000 - 204 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Michael Clark - 2000 - 272 Seiten
...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...endued with 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... | |
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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... 
