 ... every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through...  Select British Classics - Page 621803Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...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...and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me, iaid the hermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought hither ? I have been now twenty years an inhabitant... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...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...the repast was over, ' Tell me, said the hermit, by whatchance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from a cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door,...him such provisions as he had collected for himself, en which ObiJah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me, said the hermit,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...taper, he advanced towards the light ; and findin« that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, lie called humbly at the door, and obtained admission....such provisions as he had collecte'd for himself, ou which Ubadiah fed with eagerness aud gratitude. \\ hen the repast was over, " Tell me," said the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...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 nermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...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...brought " hither : I have been now twenty years an inhabi" tant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man " before." Obidah then related the occurrences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 472 pages
...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...been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inha" bitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw " a man before." Obidah then related the occurrences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...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...been brought hither; I have been now twenty years an inha" bitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw " a man before." Obidah then related the occurrences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 468 pages
...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...been brought hither; I have been now twenty years an inha" bitant' of the wilderness, in which I never saw "-a man before." Obidah then related the occurrences... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the lighQ and, finding that it proceeded from a cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door,...what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have now been twenty years an inhabitant of the wilSECT. III.] IN READING. 1*1 derness, in which I never... | |
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