 FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all...  Specimens of the British Poets ... - Page 225by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...her face. VIII.— Tlie Hermit. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age, a rev'rond hermit grew. + The moss his bed, the cave his humble...crystal well , Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days ; Prayer all his bus'ness, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred, such serene repose,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 314 pages
...wild, unknown to public view, Prom youth to age a rev'rend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave bis humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well ; Remote from man, with God he pass'd bis days, Pray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred, such serene repose, Seem'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...find by this deeree, The soul flies sooner baek to me. THE HERMIT. FAR in a wild, unknown to publie b P eave his humble eell, His food the fruits, his drink the erystal well : Remote from men, with God he... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from men, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise....such serene repose, Seem'd Heaven itself, till one suggestion rose ; That Vice should triumph, Virtue, Vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...he determined to leave his solitary abode, and to see whether these things were so. The Hermit. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age,...Prayer all his business; all his pleasure— praise. • V, P £r ne ! l ;™ h T a ?' f ' e u arned di "ne and ingenious poet, horn in Dublin 1679, died... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...her face. r Vlll.—The Hermit: FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend hermit grew. The moss his bed, the cave his- humble cell, His food the fruit, his drink tne-cbrysial well r Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days-. Prayer all his-... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...on earth in fame they lift Are senseless of the fume they give. The Hermit. Far in a wild, ncknown LW o+8V ! Rѣ b c : k d 9 ܷ , {C~U 9 . u GG=y Ѐ Z ͪgo-ȟ~ men, with God he passed his day», Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred,... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1048 pages
...note of the organ, to fold his thin transparent ivory fingers, ana say, " Let us pray I" NORTH. " Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age...the fruits, his drink the crystal well ; Remote from men, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise." TICKLER. The best... | |
 | 1832 - 706 pages
...approach to reverence. " Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend her>nit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,...the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from men, with God he passed the (lays ; Pray er all his business, all his pleasure praise ( " " A Hermit,"... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Conduct of life - 1831 - 304 pages
...used to call him the Hermit of the Dale, and not seldom applied to him the words of the poet — ' Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew.' But while we thought that my father was unreasonably ennobling a poor peasant by comparing him to the... | |
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