 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...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 92by William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares . The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. IX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...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 nor dead, Nor all asleep —... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Education - 1882 - 428 pages
...boulders are, let a great poet testify ; for the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful simile ; to a... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...seemed that ever wore grey hairs. IX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the hald hrook, or Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting hy the shores ii seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-heast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...Couched on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it could hither come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued...— Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf •Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead. Nor all asleep, in his extreme old age. His body was... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...shape and outline, resembling many others in West Yorkshire, and reminding one of Wordsworth's simile : As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...it could thither come and whence ; So that it seems n thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock, or sand, reposcth... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
...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...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 nor dead, Nor all asleep —... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 pages
...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...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - English essays - 1887 - 434 pages
...stands before him — a living man — he seems to the poet as something seen "in Visions of the Lord." As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep in his... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Education - 1887 - 458 pages
...let a great poet testify ; for the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : " As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...sense ; Like a sea.beast crawled forth, that on a shalf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geology - 1887 - 530 pages
...of till will be found with their scattered boulders sometimes many tons in weight. In such places ' A huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...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... | |
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