 I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort...  The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins: Complete in ... - Page 1551867Full view - About this book
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...oak: Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song...midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear. With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold, What... | |
 | James Rennie - Animals - 1831 - 434 pages
...good soporific *. Milton chose for his contemplative pleasures a spot where crickets resorted:— " Where glowing embers through the room Teach light...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth."—// Peaseroso. We have been as unsuccessful in transplanting the hearth-cricket as White was with the field-crickets.... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...and Penseroso, what is remarked ; and as an illustration of this remark, what passage is given t 26 Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...vi. p. 323. 68 Biding] Euvip. Suppl. 992. 'nnreovoi Si op<j>vdia£ . Over some wide-water'd shore, 7t Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; so Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfeu sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, 75 Swinging slow with sullen roar: Or , if the air will...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom 80 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drowsy charm, To bless... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfeu sound, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the ayre will not permit, Some still removed place will fit,...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsie charm, To bless the dores from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...far-off curfen sound, Over some wide-water'd shoar, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the ayre will not permit, Some still removed place will fit,...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsie charm, To bless the dores from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...Smoothing] Shakesp. Sonnets, 51. » checks] Todd's Milton, vol. vi. p. 323. Over some wide-water'd shore, 75 Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; eo Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...Allegro and Penseroso, what is remarked ; and us an illustration of this remark, what passage is given 1 Or, if the air will not permit, ^ Some still removed...Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Far from all reaort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 280 pages
...Swinging slow with solemn roar ; Or, if the air will not permit. Some still removed place will sit. Where glowing embers through the room Teach light...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen... | |
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