 | William Wordsworth - 1921 - 254 sidor
...Covenant-times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved 60 A straggling volume, torn and incomplete, That left...cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, 65 Could never be forgotten! In his heart, Where Fear sate thus, a cherished visitant, Was wanting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sidor
...woodencuts,' the images of men, and saints, and martyrs, cast in the flowing mould of nature, must be made ' Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, \Vith long and ghostly shanks, — forms which once seen Could never he forgotten !' — Wordsworth.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1985 - 84 sidor
...who sustained Intolerable pangs, and here and there A straggling volume, torn and incomplete, Which left half-told the preternatural tale, Romance of...shanks, forms which once seen Could never be forgotten - things though low, Though low and humble, not to be despised By such as have observed the curious... | |
 | Gilles Duval - 1991 - 762 sidor
...échecs, etc.. TROISIÈME PARTIE L'ICONOGRAPHIE CHAPITRE I Les illustrations : Narcisse ou Protée ? Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth,...shanks, forms which once seen Could never be forgotten. (Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book I, 181-84) Résistance de l'image au discours ? Prestige exorbitant... | |
 | Antoninus (Liberalis), Francis Celoria - 1992 - 254 sidor
...'left half-told the preternatural tale, romance of giants, chronicle of fiends'. These woodcuts were Strange and uncouth, dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-kneed,...shanks, forms which once seen Could never be forgotten - things though low. Though low and humble, not to be despised By such as have observed the curious... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sidor
...Covenant, times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour; Nor haply was there wanting here and there A straggling volume torn and incomplete That left...dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, 200 With long and ghostly shanks, forms which once seen Could never be forgotten. In his heart Where... | |
 | Mary Sands Griffin - 1866 - 464 sidor
...Dutch and German woodcut literature of the Reformation, the transition is not a very wide one. ,,Some chronicle of fiends Profuse in garniture of wooden...cuts Strange and uncouth; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp l<need, sharp elbowed, and lean anchled too, With long and ghastly shanks; forms which once seen... | |
 | 1846 - 438 sidor
...— " Strange and uncouth : dire face*, figures dire, Sharp-km-eil, sharp-elbowed, and lean ankled too. With long and ghostly shanks ; — forms which once seen Could never be- forgotten !" — Wordiwurlh. The wood-cutter's bark huts, unseen until closely approached, shewed that the bush... | |
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Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once seen Could never be forgotten... 
