 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  The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and ... - Page 385by Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 566 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...— 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 - 1831 - 584 pages
...— 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).... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...— 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).... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1846 - 728 pages
...extempore, of the very grave and serious writer alluded to : — " Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wasting out life's evening grey; Strike thy bosom sage, and...and which the way ? Thus I spoke — and speaking, sighed, Scarce repressed the starting tear, When the hermit thus replied EXAMINATION OF MASTERS. 369... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 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,...starting tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer." (3) (1) This alludes to Bishop Percy and his " Hermit of Warkworth." —... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
..."J6HNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest," ^smiling). He, at an after period added the following- stanza : "Thus I spoke; and speaking sigh'd; — Scarce repress'd the starting tear; — When the smiling sage replied — — Come, my lad, and drink some beer '." I canjiot help thinking the first... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...— 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).... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...simplicity of the original. — C. " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray ; Strike thy bosom, Sage ! and tell, What is bliss,...starting tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer." ' SO. Caricatura Imitation. — Fat Oxen, fyc. I could give another comical... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...to 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...starting tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer."t 30. Caricatura Imitation. — Fat Oxen, Sc I could give another comical... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 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...spoke, and speaking sigh'd, — Scarce repress'd the starling tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer."f 30. Caricatura... | |
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