 FA R in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend Hermit grew; The mofs his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the cryftal well: Remote from man, with God he pafs'd the days, Pray'r all his bus'nefs, all his...  The Beauties of English Poesy - Page 39by Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 12 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Miscellaneous poems - 1732 - 306 pages
...Jus lips receive. • ' . THE HERMIT. By Dr. TH O. PAR ft EL L. FA R in a wild, unknown to publick view, From youth to age a rev'rend HERMIT grew; The...all his bus'nefs, all his pleafure praife. A life fo facred, fuch ferene repofe, Seein'd heav'n itfelf, 'till one fuggeflion rofe ; That vice fhould triumph,... | |
 | English literature - 1750 - 372 pages
...on him moft juftly fall, Who finds employment for you all. The HERMI TV [By Dr. THOMAS PARNELL.] FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age...his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the chryftal wellt Remote from man, with God he pafs'd the days, Pray'r all his bus'nefs, all his pleafure... | |
 | Seraph - Hymns, English - 1754 - 294 pages
...fide, And glimmering fragments of a broken fun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick diforder run. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age...his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the chryftal well : Remote from man, witli God he pafs'd the days, Pray'rall his bus'nefs, all his plcafure... | |
 | Muse - 1757 - 248 pages
...Doves inftru&ed, you and I, Each with his one can live and die. The HERMIT. A TALE. By Mr. PAR NELL. FA R in a Wild, unknown to public View, From Youth to Age, a rev'rend Hermit The Mofs his Bed, the Cave his humble Cell, His Food the Fruits, his Drink the cryftal Well: Remote... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...of a broken fun, Banks, trees, and fkies, in thick djforder run. Far in a wild, unknown to publick view, From youth to age a rev'rend Hermit grew : The...cryftal well. Remote from man, with God he pafs'd the days,Pray'r all his bus'nefs, all his pleafure praife. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight,... | |
 | Thomas Parnell - 1767 - 250 pages
...bufy or your vain extreams; And find a life of equal blifs, Or own the next begun in this. THE HERMIT. FA R in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth...his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the chryftal well: Remote from man, with God he pafs'd the days, Pray'r all his bus'nefs, all his pleafure... | |
 | George Horne - 1769 - 174 pages
...wifdom, initiated into the myftery of a holy life, and perfected in the difcipline of felf-denial; The mofs his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the chryftalivell: Remote from man, with God he pafs'd the days, Prafr all his bus'nefs, all his pleafure... | |
 | Thomas Parnell - Battle of the frogs and mice - 1770 - 294 pages
...begun in this. The . &*u/timers- pettseattTheHERMIT. TT\ AR in a wild, unknown to publick view, Frpm youth to age a rev'rend Hermit grew ; The mofs his...his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the chryftal well: Remote from man, with God he pafs'd the days, Pray'r all his bus'nefs, all his pleafure... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...(lumber on his eyelids laid, And Eve's bleft image in a dream convey'd. THE HERMIT. BY DR. PARNE'LL. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age, a rev'rend hermit grewj The mofs his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the cryftal well:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 430 pages
...your vain extreams; And find a life of equal blifs, Or own the next begun in this. THE HERMIT, T?AR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend Hermit grew; The mofs his bed, the cave his humble cell, Kis food the fnfits, his drink the... | |
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