 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, 'Come, my lad, and drink...  Bohemia in London - الصفحة 206بواسطة Arthur Ransome - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 293عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...Stay; we'll make out the stanza: ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss, and which the way ?'" Boswell: "But why smite his bosom, sir?" Johnson: "Why, to show he was in earnest" (smiling). He... | |
 | Sensible spelling - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 64
...PLAINTIVE BALLAD, BY SAMUEL JOHNSOS, LL. D. 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 spake, and speaking sighed ; Scarce repressed the starting tear ; When the smiling sage replied, Oome,... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...alone accounted true poetry : — " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening grey, Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss ? and which...sighed ; Scarce repressed the starting tear ; When the smiling sage replied, — ' Come, my lad, and drink some beer ! ' " And very well hit off, you will... | |
 | Alexander Stewart (F. S. A., Scotland.) - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...alone accounted true poetry : — " Hermit hoar, in solemD cell, Wearing out life's evening grey, Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss ' and which...sighed ; Scarce repressed the starting tear ; When the smiling sage replied, — ' Come, my lad, and drink tome beer 1 ' " And very well hit off, you will... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...accounted true poetry : — ' ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening grey, Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss ? and which the way ? "Tims I spoke ; and speaking sighed ; Scarce repressed the starting tear ; When the smiling sage... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...alone accounted true poetry : — " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening grey, Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss ? and which the way ? " Tims I spoke : and speaking sighed ; Scarce repressed the starting tear ; When the smiling sage... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 898
...planet recovering its original form, however d it may be, by immersion in water. A VERBAL SURPRISE. " HERMIT hoar, in solemn cell. Wearing out life's evening...hoary sage replied, " Come, my lad, and drink some beet ! " DR. JOHNSOS. NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. THK Editor desire* to call the attention of Contribn... | |
 | 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...Dr. Johnson wrote the following lines as a skit on the style of Dr. Warton, then Poet-Laureate : — HERMIT hoar, in solemn cell Wearing out life's evening...the way. Thus I spoke, and speaking sighed, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied, "Come, my lad, and drink some beer." Imitation... | |
 | 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...Johnson's is a good specimen : — " Hermit hoar, in silent cell. Wearing out light's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and...sighed. Scarce repressed the starting tear ; When the smiling sage replied — '•Come, my lad. and drink some beer." Related to the anticlimax is that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...Warkworth, he submitted these 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 sigh'd, Scarce repressed the starting tear, When the hoary sage replied : Come, my lad, and drink some... | |
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