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" 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 229
by Addison (pseud.) - 1795
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The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century

Martha Pike Conant - 1908 - 352 pages
...opening lines of Parnell's poem describing the peaceful life of the hermit are characteristic : — " 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...
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The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century

Martha Pike Conant - 1908 - 352 pages
...opening lines of Parnell's poem describing the peaceful life of the hermit are characteristic : — " 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...
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Famous Fugitive Poems

Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 pages
...and bridled And booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, But never cam he 1 ANONYMOCa Ctje permit. 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...
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My Cranford: A Phase of the Quiet Life

Arthur Gilman - 1909 - 292 pages
...quite unable to say. Why should any one wish to live like Parnell's hermit, for example ? Listen : — 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...
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The Book of Restoration Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pages
...rne die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. RESTORATION VERSE 10. The Hermit R in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew; "he moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, lis food the fruits, his drink the...
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Calendar, Part 3

University of Calcutta - 1910 - 684 pages
...the word formed ? 6. Translate into Sanskrit any three of the following four pas- 25 sages :— (a) 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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...pamphleteers — stock-jobbers — Men of glory in the wars. 2149 ' Shelley : Peter Bell the Third. Pt. iii. 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...
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Brochure of Irish Achievements in Government, Art, Architecture, Literature ...

Michael John Redding - 1913 - 180 pages
...those who already have, and taking from those who have not; all regulated by the providence of God. i 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...
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Contribution to Education

1924 - 152 pages
...highly conventionalized in later literature. Parnell, in his famous poem, The Hermit, writes : "The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well." A similar detail likewise appears in the description of the hermitage occupied by the...
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The Hermit in English Literature from the Beginnings to 1660

Charles Preston Weaver - 1924 - 148 pages
...highly conventionalized in later literature. Parnell, in his famous poem, The Hermit, writes : "The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well." A similar detail likewise appears in the description of the hermitage occupied by the...
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