 ... 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 - Página 621803Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 páginas
...lying down in refignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded...hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admifsion. The old man fet before him fuch provifions as he had collected for himfelf, on which Obidah... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 páginas
...lying down in refignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded...hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admiffion. The old man fet before him fuch provifions as he had collected for himfelf, on which Obidah... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 páginas
...resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the bfam bles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanccdtöwards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the...over. ' Tell me/ said the hermit, 'by what chance thou has been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 páginas
...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...door, and obtained admission. The old man set before hina such provisions as he had collected 'for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude.... | |
 | 1806 - 346 páginas
...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...hermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought " hither ; 1 have been now twenty years an in" habitant of the wilderness, in which 1 never saw " man before."... | |
 | 1806 - 360 páginas
...to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards wards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the...hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admiffion. The old man fet before him fuch provifions as he had collected for himfelf, on which Obidah... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 páginas
...to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards wards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at she door, and obtained admiffion. The old man fet before him fuch provifions as he had collected for... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 páginas
...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..." Tell me," said the hermit, " by what chance thou bast been brought hj*' ther ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant !' of the wilderness, in which... | |
 | 1810 - 464 páginas
...lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld threugh 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 in" habitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw " a man before." Obidah then related the occtfrrenees... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 páginas
...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...for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and .gratitude.When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought... | |
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