... 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
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 páginas
...of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through 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 duor, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. Fie ut good for nothing. And yet we pass the soundest...apprehensions of things, not thinking that words are prej uet before him such provisions as he had collected for himáelf, on which Obidah fed with eagerness... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 páginas
...lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the bramble?, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded...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 - 1825 - 316 páginas
...down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of at{iper.' 12. He advanced towards the light; and finding that it proceeded...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 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 Obiduh fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit, 0 by... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 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 Obidab fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit, " by... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 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...him such provisions as he had collected for himself, oil which Obidah frd with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit,... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 páginas
...down in resignation to his fate ; when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of » taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded...admission. The old man set before him such provisions ;i$ he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 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...cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, aud obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 páginas
...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...on: which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude . 13. When the repast was over, "toll me," ««4<i me_nermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought... | |
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