 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 462 pages
...farm-house, where the winds passed through, and the rains lodged, often taking refuge in his own kitchen — Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth ! In a letter t of the disconsolate founder of landscapegardening, our author paints his situation... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 456 pages
...where the winds passed through, and the rains lodged, often taking refuge in his own kitchen — > Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth ! In a letter t of the disconsolate founder of landscapegardening, our author paints his situation... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all 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 - 1926 - 360 pages
...room MILTON S VISION OF THE MOON MILTON AND THE SPIRIT OF PLATO Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth, Or the Belmans drousie charm, To bless the doresfrom nightly harm: Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen... | |
 | David McCraw - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 292 pages
...anticipates poems 109-110.) Faint consolation for a mood as gloomy as that in Milton's "II Penseroso": Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . . . Du Fu's poem is distinguished by a consummate... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...and poetic creation, and a creation linked with mystical divinatory understanding, prophetic powers: Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tow'r, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nighdy harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes,69 or unsphere The spirit... | |
 | Jack Newton, Philip Teece - Nature - 1995 - 358 pages
...vivacious and gregarious, the other thoughtful and generally solitary. Of Penseroso, Milton wrote '. . . Or let my lamp at midnight hour/ Be seen in some high lonely tower/ Where I may oft outwatch the Bear'. If we think of the lamp as turned on to adjust the... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...by embodying "good" art, the "right" use of the imagination. II Penseroso's Platonism, for example, ("Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, / Be seen in some high lonely Tow'r I ... I The spirit of Plato to unfold" [85-86, 89]) starkly contrasts with L'Allegro's... | |
 | Lisa Gail Ryan - Art - 1996 - 92 pages
...of the fireside whose note is so suggestive of cozy comfort. Milton (// Penseroso, 81) has the line: Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth. On the other hand, the tunes of the hidden melodist were regarded by many persons with superstition... | |
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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 of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's... 
