 ... and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler - Page 305by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 476 pages
...light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...which I never saw a man before." Obidah then related die occurrences of his journey, without any concealment or palliation. " Son," said the hermit, " let... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...light , and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the duor, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in „which 1 never saw a man before." Obidah then related the occurrences of his journey, without any concealment... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...hermit, ' by what chance thou hast been brought hither l I have been now twenty years an inhabitant "f the wilderness, in which I never saw a man beObidah... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...When the repast was over, " Tell me, said the hermit, fcy what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I'have been now twenty years an inhabitant of this... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Ohidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, ' Tell me,' said the hermit, ' by... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...and obtained admission. The old man uet before him such provisions as he had collected for himáelf, ucky to destroy some sorts of birds, as swallows and...these birds seem to put in us, by building under DOW twenty years an inhabitant of thu wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.' Obidah then related... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me." said (he hermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought hither 1 I have 1>eea now twenty years au inhabitant... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...light; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. 14. " Son," said the hermit, " let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions ;i$ he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed...gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me, said the hertait, by what chance thou host been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such...provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidab fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit, " by... | |
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