...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...then I drew; He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie0 Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to...endued with sense: Like a Sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. 70 Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

...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 shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. Such seemed this Man; not all alive...

...bare to 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...there to sun itself; Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age: (50-65) The old man has been there all along,...

...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...

...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...

...situé à la frontière entre le rêve et la réalité, la vie et la mort, l'animé et l'inanimé : As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like a sea-heast crawledforth, that on a shelf Of rock orsand reposeth, there to sun itself ; Such seemed...