...— we'll make out the stanza : Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss ? and which the way ? BOSWELL. " But why smite his bosom, sir?" JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest," (smiling.) He...

...— we'll make out the stanza: ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss ? and which the way ?' " BOSWELL. " But why smite his bosom, sir ?" JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest," (smiling)....

...— we'll make out the stanza: ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss ? and which the way ?' " BOSWELL. " But why smite his bosom, sir ?" JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest," (smiling)....

...extempore, of the very grave and serious writer alluded to : — " Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wasting out life's evening grey; Strike thy bosom sage, and...and which the way ? Thus I spoke — and speaking, sighed, Scarce repressed the starting tear, When the hermit thus replied EXAMINATION OF MASTERS. 369...

...imitate such a one, naming him : — " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray ; Strike thy bosom, sage ! and tell, What is bliss,...starting tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer." (3) (1) This alludes to Bishop Percy and his " Hermit of Warkworth." —...

..."J6HNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest," ^smiling). He, at an after period added the following- stanza : "Thus I spoke; and speaking sigh'd; — Scarce repress'd the starting tear; — When the smiling sage replied — — Come, my lad, and drink some beer '." I canjiot help thinking the first...

...— we'll make out the stanza: ' Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss ? and which the way ? ' " BOSWELL. "But why smite his bosom, Sir ? " JOHNSON. " Why to show he was in earnest " (smiling)....

...simplicity of the original. — C. " Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray ; Strike thy bosom, Sage ! and tell, What is bliss,...starting tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer." ' SO. Caricatura Imitation. — Fat Oxen, fyc. I could give another comical...

...to imitate such a one, naming him:— "Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom, Sage! and tell, What is bliss, and...starting tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer."t 30. Caricatura Imitation. — Fat Oxen, Sc I could give another comical...

...imitate such a one, naming him: — "Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom, Sage! and tell, What is bliss, and...spoke, and speaking sigh'd, — Scarce repress'd the starling tear, — When the hoary Sage replied, Come, my lad, and drink some beer."f 30. Caricatura...