...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 reposeth, there to sun himself. Such seemed this man : not all alive...

...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...

...about these mysterious wanderers, of which he had seen many a one about his native hills : — "Asa huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...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...

...age, of which we Crag-beds are the English representatives. CHAPTER XIV. THE STORY OF A BOULDER. ' As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie. Couched...Of rock or sand reposeth — there to sun itself." WORDSWOKTH. EW of my fellow story-tellers can boast of adventures equal to mine. My life has been a...

...characteristic of Wordsworth. Cf. a still more powerfully imaginative passage in Resolution and Independancc. " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. " Scattered stones in \\iltshire are called 'grey wethers.' «e*rn««r one iht •namatrnsg amaaL...

...the pool's further margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stoue 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 reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seemed this man, not all alive...

...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,...

...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...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...

...Couched on the bald top of an 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...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." But no doubt the truths of geology, if known to a poet, will in some measure enter into his description...

...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...