 Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age: His body was bent double, feet and head Coming together in life's pilgrimage; As if some dire constraint of pain, or rage Of sickness felt by him in times long past, A more than human...  Poems of Wordsworth - Página 62por William Wordsworth - 1879 - 60 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Noah Heringman - 2004 - 340 páginas
...into a geological lexicon of cosmic upheaval in the distant past (66-70): His body was bent double ... As if some dire constraint of pain, or rage Of sickness...A more than human weight upon his frame had cast. I have already quoted these lines to suggest a link between the "huge stone" and the figure of tremendous... | |
 | Margaret Russett - 2006 - 19 páginas
...resurrected fifteenth-century Rowley. Not just old, the leech-gatherer is so antique as to seem inhuman: "not all alive nor dead, / Nor all asleep; in his...was bent double, feet and head / Coming together in their pilgrimage." 9 This description exaggerates Chatterton's portrait of his pilgrim — "pore in... | |
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