 | Charles Kingsley - 1873 - 306 Seiten
...lines about these mysterious wanderers, of which he had seen many a one about his native hills:— " 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." Yes; but the next time you see such... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1873 - 312 Seiten
...about these mysterious wanderers, of which he had seen many a one about his native hills : — "Asa 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." Yes ; but the next time you see such... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 Seiten
...characteristic of Wordsworth. Cf. a still more powerfully imaginative passage in Resolution and Independancc. " 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. " Scattered stones in \\iltshire are... | |
 | John Ellor Taylor - 1874 - 336 Seiten
...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...endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth — there to sun itself." WORDSWOKTH. EW of my fellow story-tellers... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 Seiten
...further on is a symbol of a different 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 Seiten
...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...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 extreme old age : His... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 Seiten
...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 - 364 Seiten
...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 - 296 Seiten
...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 - 294 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
