 | Nicholas Patrick S. Wiseman (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1859 - 386 páginas
...verify the beautiful description of the poet, — " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couoh'd on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy, * Saussure, "Voyage dans les A Ipes," tom. iv. p. 414. Ure, "New System of Geology :" Lond. 1829, p.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 páginas
...saw a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge atone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of...thither come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endned with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 386 páginas
...compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! " As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it conld thither come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled... | |
 | Archibald Geikie, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - 1865 - 398 páginas
...means it could 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 to sun itself." 1 Unhappily, the progress of modern agriculture is inimical to the preservation of these stones, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 páginas
...the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : "As a huge stone is sometimes seen to He Couched on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilized poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful simile ; to a savage poet, it would have become... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 páginas
...a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone that 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 repoeeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 páginas
...motionless : To the pool's farther margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thithor come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth,... | |
 | 1866 - 492 páginas
...passion, crouching in my soul, Started in noble form to lure me on ?" Talfourd't " Ion," iv., 1. " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bold top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could hither come, and... | |
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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 a... 
