 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 his...  Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments ... - Page 229by Addison (pseud.) - 1795Full view - About this book
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 428 pages
...together. Christ does all these strange acts, and repeats the proverb " Blessed are the poor in spirit."] 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pages
...each event. The morn was wasted in the pathless grass, And long and lonesome was the wild to pass ; " Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew." That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey; This sprung some doubt of Providence's... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 564 pages
...Christ does all these strange acts and repeats the proverb " Blessed are the poor in spirit."] FAB 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...dreams, Your busy or your vain extremes ; And find a life of equal bliss, Or own the next begun in this. THE HERMIT. 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... | |
 | 1901 - 1080 pages
...then to see the gates of life unclose, The tine face vanish — and the morning break. EDITH RrrrEB. ~ ! " # reverend hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...rich, or praise the great, Who, while on earth in fame they live, Are senseless of the fame they give. He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire : But thinks, admitted to t reverend Hermit grew ; Fhe moss his bed, the cave his humille cell, His food the fruits, his drink... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...great, Who, while on earth in fame they live, Are senseless of the fame they give. The Hermit. Fir p(> v b b e . w w8v9v ipvQ_R_7o v t W!w n v s n wfm t reverend Hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the... | |
 | 1903 - 456 pages
...— twenty -six 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... | |
 | John Morrow, Andrew Curtin McLean, Thomas Charles Blaisdell - 1903 - 364 pages
...not 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... | |
 | John Morrow, Andrew Curtin McLean, Thomas Charles Blaisdell - 1903 - 364 pages
...not 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... | |
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