 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pàgines
...evening gray he'd think fine. Stay — we'll make out the stanza: — ' Hermit hoar, in solemn eel], Wearing out life's evening gray, Smite thy bosom,...bosom, Sir?" JOHNSON: "Why to show he was in earnest" * Thomas Coxeter, Esq., -who had also made a large collection of old plays, and from whose manuscript... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...•• 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 - 512 pàgines
...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 - 550 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 546 pàgines
...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,..."But why smite his bosom, Sir?" JOHNSON. " Why to shew he was in earnest," (smiling). He at an after period added the following stanza : " Thus I spoke... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pàgines
...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,...But why smite his bosom, Sir ? ' JOHNSON. ' Why, to shew he was in earnest,' (smiling.) — He at an after period added the following stanza : ' Thus I... | |
 | William G. Hutchison - 1904 - 352 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
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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, 
