 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pagine
...Whcel'd by me, — even as if the Earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round! Behind mo did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watcli'd JLAill all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on the... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 354 pagine
...short ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled hy me — even as if the earth had rolled With visihle motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feehler and feehler, and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. THE OLD CUMBERLAND... | |
 | James M. Heath - 1984 - 208 pagine
...heels, Stopp'd short, yet still the solitary Cliffs Wheeled by me, even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round; Behind me did...solemn train Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. [1:478-89] This is a passage of characteristically... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1985 - 84 pagine
...still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short - yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me, even...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. Prelude, was less important to Wordsworth than childhood. He did not feel it to have been in the same... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - 1985 - 322 pagine
...spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled 35 With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1986 - 366 pagine
...essential truths beyond sense, as when the skating child reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! (1:457-60) More than the earth's physical turning, the spirit's vital dynamism is revealed by this... | |
 | Meena Alexander - 1989 - 240 pagine
...the ice, the cliffs, even the very earth still spins, stretching out as spectacles for consciousness: 'Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched /Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep.' (Prel. 1 :459, 470-1, 488-9) From bodily immersion, sheer, unreflective action the... | |
 | Brian G. Caraher - 2010 - 293 pagine
...is to be located in another passage written at nearly the same time while Wordsworth was in Germany: yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! These lines occur in an "extract" from Book I of The Prelude (lines 458-60) that was published separately... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 pagine
...spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me - even...the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!6 A second important duality characterizes an aesthetic concern with nature. On the one hand,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pagine
...spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short, yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me - even as if the earth had rolled 460 With visible motion her diurnal round! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and... | |
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When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs... 
