 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 656 pages
...eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; 60 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 ; Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; 60 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 ; Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence ; 60 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 ; Such seemed this man, not all alive... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 288 pages
...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 crawl'd forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seem'd this Man,... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 pages
...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 crawl'd forth — that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. And again in his "... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence ; e o'er ihe mainland thy horrors have shone. Great sword of my father, stern that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy. By what means it could thither come, and whence ; that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 676 pages
...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 shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; Such seemed this man, not all alive... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pages
...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...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;... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1905 - 622 pages
...1815 of Wordsworth's poems, where he quotes illustratively from his "Resolution and Independence" : Like a Sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. when he was asked if London were as big as Ambleside, and indeed no other answer was given, or proper... | |
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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... 
