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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... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ... - Page 715
by Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 1008 pages
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...wide-water'd shoar, ' ' 75 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 counterfeit a gloom, go Far from all resort of mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth, Or the Belmans drousie charm, To bless...
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Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All ..., Volume 1

American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...Over some wide-watered shoar, Swinging slow with sullen roar: Or if the Ayr will not permit, Som 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 Belman's drousie charm To bless the dores from...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 502 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 from...
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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 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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L' Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

John Milton - 2006 - 66 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 from...
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Willows are Bending

Jean Phillips - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 180 pages
...and down-to-earth about a cricket's song. Perhaps it's because we associate it with Milton's lines: Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. The tall ironweed grows profusely on the roadsides....
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