eremite

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Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ingram, we now admit that Poe was neither a drunkard, a debauchee, nor a cynical eremite.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

Oft didst thou thread the woods in vain To find what bird had piped the strain:— Seek not, and the little eremite Flies gayly forth and sings in sight.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Stylitisms, eremite fanaticisms and fakeerisms; spasmodic agonistic posture-makings, and narrow, cramped, morbid, if forever noble wrestlings: all this is not a thing desirable to me.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Herbert, an eremite, beseeching him that the two may die the same day, he prays accordingly, and they die the same hour.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey