...in their origins as Wordsworth's Leech Gatherer: As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie Couch 'd on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who...same espy; By what means it could thither come, and whence.31 Such a mixture of types of rock can be seen in the foreground of John Brett's The Glacier...

...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...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...

...Gatherer in "Resolution and Independence" is presented in the doubled simile of "a huge stone" that is "sometimes seen to lie / Couched on the bald top of an eminence," speculation on whose origins makes it seem "a thing endued with sense: / Like a sea-beast crawled forth"...

...come, and whence, So that it seemed a thing endowed with sense: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself: — The analogies between the leech-gatherer and inorganic or subhuman objects capture nineteenth-century...

...the 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; Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

...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...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...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares: The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. 9 Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; 60 So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock...

...Abbey, 100-102) ... ye who pore On the dead letter, miss the spirit of things; (1850 Prelude, 8. 296-97) As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: (Resolution and Independence, 57-61) No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor, —The...

...Stanza VIII concludes: "the oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs." The next stanza begins: "As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie, / Couched on the bald top of an eminence." The metaphor—almost an epic simile—is extended as well as detached, so that the poem's return in...

...sometimes seen to lie / Couch'd on the bald'top of an eminence"), V. 69 f. („Like a Sea-beast crawl'd forth, which on a shelf / Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself") und V. 82 („Motionless äs a Cloud the Old Man stood"). 28 Ebd., V. 86-88. lyrischen Ich nicht synthetisiert,...