 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 ページ
...He, lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She, safe in the simplicity of hers. Cowper. THE HERMIT.5 AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,...And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove ; 1 Weaves — ie weaves lace with bobbins upon a pillow. 2 Cheerful, gay — He is cheerful, who is... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 ページ
...still, And mortals the sweets of (brgetfulness prove; When uought, but the torrent, U heard on the bill, And nought, but the nightingale's song, in the grove....Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar, While hii harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No more with himself, or with nature at war, He thought... | |
 | William Smyth - 1845 - 406 ページ
...moments of melancholy thought, such as poets are exposed to, he wrote the beautiful poem that begins " At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals, &c. 'Twas then by the cave of a mountain reclined, An hermit his nightly complaint thus began : Tho'... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 ページ
...there is one unaccented syllable, throughout the stanza; ie the accent occurs on every other syllable. At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And the mortals the sweets of forgetmlness prove, And when nought but the torrent is heard on the hill,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1846 - 256 ページ
...this to muse alone in summer-tide, or when the sere loaves of autumn are trembling on the bough ! " At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,...And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove." The little vale is bounded wholly on one side, and partially on the other, by a wood ; and a narrow... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1880 - 792 ページ
...despair ! 0 thou, beyond what verse or speech can tell, My guide, my friend, my best beloved, farewell ! THE HERMIT. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet...mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious, a Ijprmit No more with himself or -'jth "t*t"°° at war, He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1880 - 792 ページ
...despair ! O thou, beyond what verse or speech can tell, My guide, my friend, my best beloved, fare well 1 THE HERMIT. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet...When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, 'Twas \}\us, by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 740 ページ
...its hold, And rusty halfpence purchase hoards of gold. The Country Jsatioe. Jamai Brattie. 1735-1803. The Hermit. At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfnlness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's... | |
 | James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881 - 232 ページ
...poet, was born in Kincardine in 1735. ' The Minstrel ' is his most admired poem. He died in 180i1. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,...the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious,1 a hermit began : No more with himself or with nature at war, He thought as a sage, though... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 512 ページ
...half a mile from home; He, lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She, safe in the simplicity of hers. THE HERMIT. AT the close of the day, when the hamlet...When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill. Coteper. And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove; 'Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain... | |
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AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove... 
