 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 396 pages
...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...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on the earth ! Ye Visions of the hills ! And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 pages
...I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me—even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on the earth ! Ye Visions of the hills ! And... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...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." Wordsworth's great merit lies in his having been a reformer, nay, in many respects a regenerator, of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; t po` , dreamless sleep. Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on the earth ! Ye Visions of the hilla ! And... | |
 | George Anderson (of Glasgow.) - 1852 - 106 pages
..." 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 —...watched " Till all was tranquil as a summer sea," JOHN" XKM-SUN, PH1NTEK, Th SOATE. ... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 pages
...still The rapid line of motion, then at once Jlave I, reclining back upon my heels Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me, even...and I stood and watched, Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep." And with this famous skating passage — the finest realization of the kind in poetry,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...my heels Stopp'd short : yet still the solitary cliffs Wheel'd by me even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round : Behind me...solemn train Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. ESSAY IV. Es ist fast traurig zu sehen, wie man von... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...my heels Stopp'd short : yet still the solitary cliffs Wheel'd by me even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round : Behind me...solemn train Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. ESSAY IV. Ei istfast traurig tu sehen, wie man von der... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...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 I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on the earth ! Ye Visions of the hills ! And... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...heels, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliff Wheel'd by me — even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me...and watched, Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. TH£ MILKT WAT. THE MILKY WAY. After all these cheerful Christmas doings, good dinners, and merry dances,... | |
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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... 
