 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
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 862 pages
...great, Who, while on earth in fame they live, Are senseless of the fame they give. The Hermit. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend Hermit grew ; Fhe moss his bed, the cave his humille cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well ; demote... | |
 | Bernhard Neuendorff - 1903 - 126 pages
...Goldsmith sicher kannte, nannte er es doch in seinem 'Life of Parnell' als dessen bestes Gedicht: Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age...grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, flis food the fruits, his drink the crystall well; Remote from men, ; bei Goldsmith entsprechen diesen... | |
 | Cookery - 1903 - 456 pages
...letters which, when applied to the cryptograph, will give a couplet from Parnell's " Hermit " : — "Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew." The employment of figures and signs for letters is the most usual form of the cryptograph. From the following... | |
 | John Morrow, Andrew Curtin McLean, Thomas Charles Blaisdell - English language - 1903 - 364 pages
...know which profession to choose. 13. The snowy lands are springing, in clover green and soft. 14. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew. 15. Delightful is this loneliness. 16. Constant quiet fills my peaceful breast With unmixed joy, uninterrupted... | |
 | John Morrow, Andrew Curtin McLean, Thomas Charles Blaisdell - English language - 1903 - 364 pages
...know which profession to choose. 13. The snowy lands are springing, in clover green and soft. 14. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew. 15. Delightful is this loneliness. 16. Constant quiet fills my peaceful breast With unmixed joy, uninterrupted... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - History - 1904 - 352 pages
...morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day. MILTON Paradise Lost bk. i, 1. 743. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew. PARNELL The Hermit 1.1 And so we lay from ebb-tide, till the flow Rose high enough to drive us from... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - History - 1904 - 344 pages
...morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day. MILTON Paradise Lost bk. i, l. 748. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew. PARNELL The Hermit l. 1. And so we lay from ebb-tide, till the flow Rose high enough to drive us from... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...elegance of Parnell's style. The first is the opening of his most popular poem, The Hermit:— Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age...drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he passed the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred, such serene repose,... | |
 | Romani - 1905 - 500 pages
...the reader may compare the two stories the more readily, it is inserted here : — THE HERMIT. " 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, 1'ray'r all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred,... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 528 pages
...humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he passed the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred, such serene repose, Seemed heaven itself, till one suggestion rose ; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung... | |
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