| John Campbell Shairp - 1877 - 296 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 642 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 676 páginas
...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1878 - 1112 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...eye of heaven I saw a man before me unawares — The oldest man he seemed that ever W gray hairs. XX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...to all who do the same espy By what means it could hither come, a* whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sen*" Like a sea-beast crawled forth,... | |
| John Ellor Taylor - 1879 - 294 páginas
...produced mainly by the powerful icetools in operation during the period we have referred to, — " 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." The amount of wear-and-tear due... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 páginas
...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. 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 ; Such seemed this Man, not all alive... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 páginas
...eye of heaven 1 saw a man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. 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 ; Such seemed this man, not all alivenordead,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1880 - 330 páginas
...low desires : A man who without self-control Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires. 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; .Such seemed this man, not all alive... | |
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