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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... "
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 92
by William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pages
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...IX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder lo nil who do the same espy, By what means it could thither...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or saud reposcth, there lo sun itself; x, Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep...
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M ...

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...seemed that ever wore grey hairs. DC. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the hald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same...So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea.heast erawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposcth, there to sun itself; x. Such seemed...
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The poetical works of Wordsworth. Repr. of the 1827 ed., with ..., Issue 476

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...picture compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other I " 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 himself. Such seemed this man : not all alive...
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Town Geology

Charles Kingsley - 1873 - 306 pages
...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...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 a stone, believe that the wonder...
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Town Geology

Charles Kingsley - 1873 - 312 pages
...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...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 a stone, believe that the wonder...
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Geological Stories: A Series of Autobiographies in Chronological Order

John Ellor Taylor - 1874 - 336 pages
...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...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth — there to sun itself." WORDSWOKTH. EW of my fellow story-tellers can boast of adventures...
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Selections from the poetical works of William Wordsworth, ed. with notes by ...

William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...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...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. " Scattered stones in \\iltshire are called 'grey wethers.' «e*rn««r...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth..

William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...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...
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Aesthetical and literary

William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 pages
...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,...
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Aesthetical and literary

William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 pages
...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...endued with sense, Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. Such seemed this Man ; not all alive...
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