Remote from cities liv'd a swain,

Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;

His head was silver'd o'er with age,

And long experience made him sage.

John Gay (1688-1732): Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher.

The languages, especially the dead,

The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,

The arts, at least all such as could be said

To be the most remote from common use.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 40.

Remote from man, with God he passed the days;

Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.

Thomas Parnell (1679-1717): The Hermit. Line 5.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,

Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Traveller. Line 1.