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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the ... - Page 87
by John Walter - 1785 - 225 pages
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...the far-off curfeu sound, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the ayre will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through...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...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...an illustration of this remark, what passage is given 1 Or, if the air will not permit, ^ Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through...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...
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The Central literary magazine, Volume 4

Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...waits to " Hear the far-off Curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore ; " or he muses in silence, " Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ;" or desires that his lamp may " At midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower," where he may...
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Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...and in the repeated "wide water, without sound" of Stevens's "Sunday Morning" — through the place Where glowing Embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom and to generate the interior illumination of the figurative, the passage then continues into the realms...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. 7502 7/ Penseroso' l, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother. 11445 Rhymes for the Nursery 'The resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. 7503 7/ Penseroso' Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing...
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Erzählte Räume: Studien zur Phänomenologie der epischen Geschehensumwelt

Dietrich Jäger - American fiction - 1998 - 340 pages
...Over som wide-water'd shoar, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the Ayr will not permit, Som still removed place will fit, Where glowing Embers through the room Teach light to counterfait a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth, Or the Belmans drousie...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...some wide-water'd shore, 75 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, 80 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth, Or the Bellman's drowsy charm, To...
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Encyclopædia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the ...

Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 676 pages
...accustomed to sit. Milton chose for his contemplative pleasures a spot where crickets resorted: "Wh«re glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all sorts of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth." A Japanese tree cricket called the minminzemi, is...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Swinging slow with sullen roar;0 Or if the air will not permit,0 Some still removed place will fit,0 Where glowing embers 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,0 To...
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England

Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 pages
...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...room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors...
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