Word: hermitting
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...singers are members of twelve families, but most of them are included in the finches, warblers, thrushes, and vireos. Of these the thrushes are by far the best singers, and best of all perhaps is the song of the hermit thrush. The hermit's song is not intrusive or passionate but is like some grand hymn, rising pure and clear from the depths of the forest. Other fine singers are the brown thrush, the purple finch, and the winter wren. Most of the singers are finches. As a rule these are small and insignificant, but there are some brilliant exceptions...
...Cynics played an important part at this time. Their bravery and constancy won for them the respect of all. They resemble in some respects the modern anarchists except in relation to God. Their pure deism rebuked the polytheism of the age, and their asceticism did much towards shaping the hermit life and the monastic system of later times...
Oliver Goldsmith's works are great favorites with native readers in India. Thus the loves of Edwin and Angelina have been rendered into Urdu as Ekantbase yogi, or "The Lonely Hermit," while "She Stoops to Conquer" is translated into the same dialect as "The Story of Beauty Unveiled...
...Blackstone was not only a son of that great University, but he had taken his honors at the hands of our immediate parent, Emmanuel College. Then again a few years later, when he welcomed the great immigration under John Winthrop, it was a child of Trinity that accepted the hermit's invitation, so that in this way, as it were, the great English University became sponsor at the founding of the New England Boston...
...fascinating sketch. It is an admirable portrayal of the inner life of a man who sought to express in his work the higher ideals which he cherished. The peculiar delicacy and enthusiasm of Dr. Brooks' touch is here seen at its best. The The succeeding paper, "The Hermit Thrush," by Mr. G. P. Baker, is particularly happy in one respect - that of tone. There are one or two striking lines, and upon the whole this is the strongest work recently published by Mr. Baker. A review of 'Herrick and His Verse," by Mr. F. S. Palmer, is light in handling...