 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 trang
...the following burlesque lines. " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sighed, Scarce repressed the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied,... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Paige - 1845 - 182 trang
...PURSUITS AFTER BLISS. TEXT. — Hermit, hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening grey, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sighed, Scarce repressed the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 trang
...light-headed-and-hearted Albert Smith : " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way. " Thus I spoke, and, speaking, sighed, Scarce repress'd the falling tear, When the hoary sage replied,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 392 trang
...Wearing out life's evening gray.1 Gray evening is common enough ; but evening gray he'd think fine. — Stay; — we'll make out the stanza: ' Hermit hoar,..."But why smite his bosom, Sir ? " JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest " (smiling), He at an after period added the following stanza : — (1 ) This... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1850 - 320 trang
...beginning "Hermit hoar — " " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way. " Thus I spoke, and speaking, sighed, Scarce repressed the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 trang
...Ancient Ballads are all admirable. " Hermit hoar. In solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening grey, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss— and which the way? Thus 1 spoke, and speaking sigh'd.. Scarce repressed the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 trang
...light-headed-and-hearted Albert Smith : — '* Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way. " Thus I spoke, and, speaking, sigh'd, Scarce repress'd tbe falling tear, When the hoary gage replied,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 trang
...IMITATION OF THE STYLE OF 1 * 1 HERMIT hoar, in solemn cell Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way. 2 Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 trang
...IMITATION OF THE STYLE OF 1 * 1 HERMIT hoar, in solemn cell Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way. 2 Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied,... | |
 | 1856 - 642 trang
...great moralist of the 'Rambler.' Hoary sage! in hermit cell Wearing out life's evening grey, Strike thy bosom, sage! and tell — What is bliss — and which the way. Thus he spake, and speaking sigh'd — Scarce repress'da falling tear; When the hoary sage replied,... | |
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Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way? 
