... 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
| William Scott - 1820 - 422 páginas
...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,...he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed wi eagerness and gratitude. When the re-past was over, " Tell me, i • mil, by what chance thou hast... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...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 i at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 398 páginas
...taper. He advanced towards the light) and finding that it proceeded from a cottage of a hermitj h<» called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provision* as he tad collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagern'ess and gratitude. When... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 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...from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at Ihe door, and obtained admission. The old man set before liim such provisions as he had collected for... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 páginas
...down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the gl\jnrner of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called numbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper." 12. He advanced towards the light; and finding that it proceeded...such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which'Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. JS. When the repast was over, " tell me," said the hermit,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 páginas
...towards the light; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at IK- door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as lie had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 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 l I have been now twenty years an inhabitant "f the wilderness, in which I never saw a man beObidah... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...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...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 - 1823 - 638 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...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... | |
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