...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...

...tormenting temptations, and comforted under all his afflictions. TF PARNELL'S POEM OF THE HERMIT. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From 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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...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...crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred, such serene repose, Seem'd...

...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...from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business—all his pleasure praise. A little lowly Hermitage it was, Down in a dale hard by a forest...

...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 Father Dominick...

...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...

...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 to age...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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...aspire) hastened to receive the orders of the future sovereign. Doffed : removed. CHAPTER SIXTEENTH. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age...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....