...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...

...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...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! (Wordsworth [1850] 1991, p. 26) Wordsworth's language imitates the movement and dizziness of the narrator...

...i (5) /sentence 2 /sentence 3 (ro) /sentence 4 (15) (20) /sentence 5 (25) (30) Wheeled by me—even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! (35) Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, /sentence 6 Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched...

...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...and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep. William Wrdsuxrih alliteration: V sounds here suggest idea of skates hissing away...

...how stopping suddenly during ice-skating made him feel as if the landscape continued to spin by him, "as if the earth had rolled / With visible motion her diurnal round!" (1979, 53); again the point is the narrator's apparent exemption from the earth's rotation. To read...

...hills apparently of their own volition continue their movement as he suddenly comes to a standstil1. - yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me, even...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. (Np.5, 11.180-185) Separating himself more or less voluntarily from the spontaneous communion with...

...the rest of the universe: such intense self-consciousness demands the earth itself as its ground — "even as if the earth had rolled / With visible motion her diurnal round." But the question "Was it for this?" is also an old literary convention, a variation on the ubi sunt...

...cosmic process, when suddenly the boy would stop short, producing the optical and tactical illusion that still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as...had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round! (1l. 458-60) The richness of sensuous texture makes it possible for us to participate in the epiphany,...

...the .Shepherd's face / In rapture, yet suspending her embrace. XVH 14, 4. 3. Earth (5) fern., neutr. As if the earth had rolled / With visible motion her diurnal round! Prel. 1, 459. You look round on your Mother Earth, , As if she for no purpose bore you; / As if yon...

...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...motion her diurnal round! Behind me did they stretch in solenm train. Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep....