 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 - Página 30por William Wordsworth - 1815Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 páginas
...of heaven, I saw a man before me unawares ; The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all that do the same espy, By what means it could thither come and whence, So that it seems a thing endued... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1865 - 448 páginas
...had striven, I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. 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; — Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 páginas
...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 the...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; x Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | 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 the...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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...sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand repoeeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep ; in his... | |
 | 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...endued with sense ; Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilized poet, the fancy becomes... | |
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