...with which the scene began — "I wheeled about" — is completely taken over by the world's floor: yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! — the earth's rolling motion sustained by the mental practices of rarity and stretching as the skater...

...and then suddenly stop short to watch the "sweeping" scenery on either side continue to "wheel" by, "even as if the earth had rolled / With visible motion her diurnal round" (i: 481 86). Such self-experiments, along with more exotic phenomena like phantom limb pains, demonstrate...

....406-10); or when, stopping suddenly in his ice-skating, the "solitary cliffs" seemed still to wheel by, "as if the earth had rolled / With visible motion her diurnal round" (1.484-86); or when, ascending "up the lonely brooks," he sees suddenly before him a shepherd. "In...

...with the very motion of the earth: then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! (1.456-60) The illumination that comes through "such ministry" of earth (as he calls it a few lines...

...still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short - yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me - even...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. (Prelude (1805), book I, lines 474-89) To put it simply, the boy voyages to discover...

...my heels, Stopp'd short; yet still die solitary Cliffs Wheel'd by me even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round! Behind me did...solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. [dreamless sleep] . The boy who had "wheel'd about,"...

...run"). In The Prelude also we have the sense of a mighty universal frame carrying all along. We read of the Solitary Cliffs Wheeled by me, even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round. (Book I, lines 484-486) And later we have the phrase...

...heels, Stopp'd short, yet still the solitary Cliffs Wheel'd by me, even as if the earth had roll'd With visible motion her diurnal round; Behind me did...solemn train Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch'd Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. (The Prelude, I, 478-89) and the verbal sequences...

...spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me even as...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. 7.7.8 Nominalization In "proper" nominalization a nominalized form represents qualities...