 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
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...imitate such a one, naming him : " ' 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 the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...imitate such a one, naming him : ' ' ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell Wearing ont 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 the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...; 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...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 shew he was in earnest,' (smiling).... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...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 shew he was in earnest,' (smiling).... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...Johnsoniana, p. 175. • • ' HERMIT hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray ; Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss ? and which the way ? ' Thus I spoke ; and speaking sigh'd ; — Scarce repress'd the starting tear ; — When the smiling sage reply'd — ' — Come,... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...those given by Boswell : — " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray, Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss ? and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear; When the smiling sage reply'd, ' Come, my lad, and drink... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...we'll make out the stanza: — ' Hermit hoar, in solemn eel], 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" * Thomas Coxeter,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell, i What is bliss, and which the way? ' Thus I spoke,...sage replied, ' Come, my lad, and drink some beer.' " This was the first epigram of the kind which I had seen ; and it had a cautionary effect upon me... | |
 | Heinrich Heine - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...Where is bliss, and which the way ?" Thus I spake, and frequent sifth'd. Scarce repressed the falling tear, When the hoary sage replied, " Come, my lad, and drink some beer !" The exuberance of Heine's heart, as has been well said, was only equalled by the dryness of his... | |
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