 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pagine
...pieture compared with that produced by their being thus conneeted with, and opposed to, each other ! 1 As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...could thither come, and whence, So that it seems a tbing endued with sense, Like a eoa-beast crawled forth, which on s shelf Of rock or sand rcposeth,... | |
 | David Page - 1845 - 400 pagine
...have been so placed. Wordsworth refers to, and has well described them in the following lines :— " 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 hither come, and whence, So that it seems a thing endued... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | 1847 - 436 pagine
...Dissolving View of London in the Olden Time." (To be concluded in the next.j GLACIERS. " As a large stone is sometimes seen to lie, Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do tlie name espy, Б; what means it could hither соше, or whence ; bo that it teem» a thing endued... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1847 - 862 pagine
...Dissolving View of London in the Olden Time." (To be concluded m the next.) GLACIERS. "Asa large atone ia sometimes seen to lie, Couched on the bald top of. an eminence, Wonder to all who do Uie name espy, J;\ what means it could hither coute, or whence; So that it aeeina a thing eudued with... | |
 | John Wright (of Nottingham.) - 1851 - 388 pagine
...LAUREATE WORDSWORTH, page 290. ( l ) The strange 'phenomenon would seem Analogous to some " huge stone." 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 f Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 386 pagine
...an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy, -) By what means it could hither come, or whence j So that it seems a thing endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." WOKDSWOBTH. De la Beche has paid particular... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 390 pagine
...and alone, on the side of a mountain, so as to verify the beautiful description of the poet, — " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy, , * Saussure, "Voyage dans les Alpes," torn. iv. p. 414. Ure, "New System of Geology," Lond. 1829,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 pagine
...unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. Asa 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; Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pagine
...eye of heaven I saw a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray haira. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie, Couched...and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with senso : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.... | |
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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... 
