...the inanimate and animate, natural and human worlds: As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie Couch'd on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who...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,...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares: The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. IX As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, 60 By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like...

...elaborating that its true function is to collapse and fuse apparently hierarchical orders of being: 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...

...is in the first sighting of the 'Leech-gatherer' in 'Resolution and Independence', composed in 1802: As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seemed a thing endued with sense: Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth,...

...a comment on the following passage in "Resolution and Independence," as he cites it in the Preface: As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...endued with sense. Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shell Of rock or sand reposeth. there to sun himself. Such seemed this Man; not all alive...

...then I drew; He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie0 Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to...endued with sense: Like a Sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. 70 Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

...in their origins as Wordsworth's Leech Gatherer: As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie Couch 'd on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who...same espy; By what means it could thither come, and whence.31 Such a mixture of types of rock can be seen in the foreground of John Brett's The Glacier...

...a comment on the following passage in "Resolution and Independence," as he cites it in the Preface: 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...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares: The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. IX 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; X Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead. Nor all asleep — in...

...the 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...sea-beast crawled forth, that 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...