 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 a...  The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth - Стр. 200авторы: William Wordsworth - 1820Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Ellor Taylor - 1874 - Страниц: 336
...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...Of rock or sand reposeth — there to sun itself." WORDSWOKTH. EW of my fellow story-tellers can boast of adventures equal to mine. My life has been a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - Страниц: 802
...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 - Страниц: 574
...the pool's further margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stoue is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - Страниц: 366
...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...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 - Страниц: 364
...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 - Страниц: 296
...eye, 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...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 - Страниц: 294
...eye, 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...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 - Страниц: 676
...hundred feet above the 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 - Страниц: 642
...hundred feet above the 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 - Страниц: 1112
...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... | |
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