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 a... The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Página 128por William Wordsworth - 1827Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 páginas
...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...could thither come, and whence, So that it seems a tlling endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 páginas
...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 the bald top of au eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it could thither come, and whence, So... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1877 - 296 páginas
...eye, when, caring little enough for scientific theories, it shaped them into this human phantasy— ' As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it hath hither come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sense; Like a sea-beast crawled... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1877 - 294 páginas
...eye, when, caring little enough for scientific theories, it shaped them into this human phantasy — " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy By what meaus it hath hither come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sense ; Like a sea-beast... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 642 páginas
...hundred feet above the present sea level; how came the huge bowlder, and whence — " Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself" ; * how came Castle Rock in Minnesota, and the Matterhorn, in Switzerland, sculptured by water ? The... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 676 páginas
...hundred feet above the present sea level ; how came the huge bowlder, and whence — " Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself" ; a how came Castle Rock in Minnesota, and the Matterhorn, in Switzerland, sculptured by water ? The... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...eye of heaven I saw a man before me unawares — The oldest man he seemed that ever W gray hairs. XX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...to all who do the same espy By what means it could hither come, a* whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sen*" Like a sea-beast crawled forth,... | |
| John Ellor Taylor - 1879 - 294 páginas
...produced mainly by the powerful icetools in operation during the period we have referred to, — " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...Of rock or sand reposeth — there to sun itself." The amount of wear-and-tear due to weather action, which has taken place since the mechanical action... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 356 páginas
...noble lines about these mysterious wanderers, of which he had seen many a one about his native hills : As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Yes ; but the next time you see such a stone, believe that the wonder has been solved, and found to... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 páginas
...picture compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other 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 rcposeth, there to sun hunself. Such seemed this man . not all alive... | |
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