 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 576 pages
...did the wily Norman aspire,) hastened to receive tin; orders of the future sovereign. CHAPTER XVJ. . Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth...bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, Itis drink the crystal well ; Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1836 - 604 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 360 pages
...indulge in England ; and thus lived a life of alternate excitement and despondency —both ending in woe. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth...the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 442 pages
...in England ; and thus lived a life of alternate excitement and despondency — both ending in woe. From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss...the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...England ; and thus lived a Ufc of alternate excitement and despondency — both ending in woe. • .* . FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend htrmit grew ;_ The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 452 pages
...rich, or praise the 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,...his drink the crystal well ; Remote from men, with Ood he passed his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred, gnoh serene... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - 1893 - 460 pages
...is said to have been painted by Sir Edwiu Landseer. Canvas, 18J X 22, upright. Sheepshanks Gift. " Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth...drink the crystal well : Remote from men. with God he passed the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise." — Parnell. An aged man, in the... | |
 | 1893 - 386 pages
...Come§ hurrying on before his day, Shall only find by this decree, The soul flies sooner back to me. 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 568 pages
...aspire) hastened to receive the orders of the future sovereign. Doffed : removed. CHAPTER SIXTEENTH. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth...cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well ; Hemote from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business — all his pleasure praise.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 536 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...moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the finite, his drink the crystal well ; Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business,... | |
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