...highly conventionalized in later literature. Parnell, in his famous poem, The Hermit, writes : "The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well." A similar detail likewise appears in the description of the hermitage occupied by the...

...corrected by Pope. I am not certain that his judgement was unerring. Lines 3 and 4 run thus : The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well. After this couplet stood another which Pope suppressed : His goods, a glass to measure...

...HERMIT. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure...

...Chapter 16 Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business - all his pleasure...

...Chapter 16 Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days, Prayer all his business - all his pleasure...

...abstemious diet, and unostentatious apparel, the examPL€ o* the humility he taught:— "The moss Ms bed, the cave his humble cell; His food, the fruits; his drink, the crystal well: Hi? life one constant scene of calm repose; No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows....