 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...  Poems - Strana 30autor/autoři: William Wordsworth - 1815Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 str.
...of Wordsworth. Cf. a still more powerfully imaginative passage in Resolution and Independancc. " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...endued with sense, , Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. " Scattered stones in \\iltshire are... | |
 | John Ellor Taylor - 1874 - 336 str.
...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 on...endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth — there to sun itself." WORDSWOKTH. EW of my fellow story-tellers... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 str.
...further on is a symbol of a different kind. On the top of a rounded knoll lies a monstrous boulder— Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. A noble chair it would make for [a professor of geology. To me it recalls an eastern legend which I... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 str.
...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...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 the...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 str.
...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 the...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 - 676 str.
...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... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 642 str.
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1878 - 1112 str.
...compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! " As !x huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...By what means it could thither come, and whence, So thnt it seems a thing endued with seu^e, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or... | |
| |
