 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 272 pages
...hear the far off curfew somid,. Over some wide water'd shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar. Or, it' the air will not permit, Some still removed place...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bell-man's drowsy charm, To... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide water'd shore, Swinging slow, with sullen roar. Or if the air will...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 drowsy charm, To... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar: Or, if the air will...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom; Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drowsy charm, To bless... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-oft" curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed piace will 'fit, Where glowing embers through die room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Far from... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off cuiiew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will...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 drowsy charm, To bless... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 320 pages
...still removed place will sit, Where gloWiug 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 drowsy charm, To hless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower,... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 734 pages
...prose, " the bloomy flush of life is all fled but one old woman." Ritson. Yet Milton could write : Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bell-man's drowsy charm—- and I dare say he was right. 0 never let a quaker, or a woman, try 447 their hand at being witty, any... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfen sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or if the air will...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 drowsy charm, To bless... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...called curfeu, Fr. couvre-feu, that is, cover-fire. See the Glossary tp Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, 75 80 Chaucer. And the two following... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swi inging slow with sull if the air will not per llen roar j Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drowsy charm, To bless... | |
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Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. 
