 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...evening gray he'd think fine. Stay — we'll make out the stanza: — ' Hermit hoar, in solemn eel], C show he was in earnest" * Thomas Coxeter, Esq., -who had also made a large collection of old plays,... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...evening gray. Now, gray evening is common enough ; but evening gray he'd think finer,— Stay, shall we make out the stanza? — Hermit hoar, in solemn cell,...bosom, sage, and tell. What is bliss? and which the way t Where is bliss? would have been better." Boswell continues: "He then added a ludicrous stanza, but... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...•• For example, he'd write thus: Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray. Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening...bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way t Where is bliss? would have been better." Boswell continues: "He then added a ludicrous stanza, but... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 pages
...laugh at this popular person: " ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell Wearing out life's evening gray, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way?' / A literary movement which reverts to the past for its inspiration is necessarily also a learned movement.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...evening is common enough ; but evening gray he'd think fine. Stay— we'll make out the stanza : — 1 ments to your family. I am, Sir, " Your most obliged,...humble servant, "SAM. JOHNSON." " Oct. 16, 1765. From show he was in earnest " (smiling). — He, at an after period, added the following stanza : — "Thus... | |
 | William G. Hutchison - 1904 - 352 pages
...us, boys. We're free from pain ; But if we remain, A bottle and kind landlady Cure all again. 120 " HERMIT hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening...sage, and tell, What is bliss, and which the way? " Thus I spoke ; and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repressed the starting tear ; When the smiling sage replied... | |
 | Patrick Maxwell - 1906 - 304 pages
...not mentioned—and, in the course of his remarks, he said: ' Why, the fellow would write thus' : " Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening...bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way ;" whereon he added, in the same strain of mockery, and as if tickled with the conceit: "Thus I spoke,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 730 pages
...evening gray." Gray evening is common enough ; but evening gray he'd think fine. — Stay ; — we'll make out the stanza : ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell,...bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way ?"' 1 [Thomas Coxeter, Esq., who had also made a large collection of old plays, and from whose manuscript... | |
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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?'" BOSWELL. " But why smite his bosom, Sir ?" JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest... 
