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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... "
Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Page 274
edited by - 1821 - 807 pages
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The Lady of the Manor: Being a Series of Conversations on the ..., Volume 2

Mary Martha Sherwood - 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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The New sporting magazine, Volume 2

1832 - 666 pages
...can read Parnell's beautiful description without feeling something like an 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, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal...
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The Saturday Magazine ...

1840 - 534 pages
...delivered from his tormenting temptations, and comforted under all his afflictions. TF PARNELL'S POEM OF THE HERMIT. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view,...youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bud, the cave his humble coll, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from men, with...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell

Thomas Parnell - 1833 - 324 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,...the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred,...
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His ..., Volume 3

Walter Scott - 1833 - 854 pages
...preferment did the wily Norman aspire) hastened to receive the orders of the future sovereign. CHAPTER XVI. Far in a wild, unknown to public view. From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moan his boo, the cave lii» humble celt. His food the fruit*, In- drink the crystal well ; Remote...
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Stories of the Study, Volume 1

John Galt - 1833 - 332 pages
...and penitence, he was not surpassed by any thing in the legends of the saints. " The moss his bed, a cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well ; Remote from man, with God he passed his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise." In the mean time...
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Stories of the Study, Volume 1

John Galt - 1833 - 334 pages
...and penitence, he was not surpassed by any thing in the legends of the saints. " The moss his bed, a cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well ; llemote from man, with God he passed his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise."...
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The Hermit of Eskdaleside, with Other Poems

I. A. Merryweather - 1833 - 162 pages
...the lasting honour they have conferred upon her. WMtby, J**t 13M, 1833. THE HERMIT OF ESKDALESIDE. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age, a rev't end Hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the...
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The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 2

1834 - 374 pages
...the first lines of Parnel's " Hermit," and mark the only figurative word they contain with italics. " Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth...moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruit, his drink the chrystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days; Pray'r all his business,...
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Murray's System of English Grammar: Improved, and Adapted to the Present ...

Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond - 1835 - 240 pages
...whether the adverb ever qualifies a preposition, or an article, w« subjoin the following examples: " Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend hermit grew." " I think it unpardonable ignorance not to be acquainted with the history of...
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