 Oft, on a plat of rising ground, 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...  Appletons' School Readers: (five Book Edition) - Page 412by William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...person of Talgol (fig. 17). Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, 80 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on...drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour, 85 Be seen in some Tiigh lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-watch... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pages
...that enchanting little picture, which beats all the cabinet portraits that have been produced ; — Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed...drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. -But to attend to our fireside. The evening is beginning to gather in. The window, which presents a... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...that enchanting little picture, which beats all the cabinet portraits that have been produced ; — Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, I ;ii from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with solemn roarr Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gluom ; Far from all resort of mirlh, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy r-harm,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfcu sound Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow wilh sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some...drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm : Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out-watch the... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...fleecy cloudy Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound, MS Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air...drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm : Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear,... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...of what it did yesterday, but a commerce with airy nothings and boundless excursions of fancy, while "Glowing embers through the room, Teach light to counterfeit...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth." That last scrap has guided me to the poet who has expressed my present feeling. I am thinking of old... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...fleecy 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...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 pages
...sullen roar. Or, if the air wil! not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing emhers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom,...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the hellman's drowsy charm, To hless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let ray lamp and midnight hour, Be... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...hear the far-off Curfcu sound, Om wine wide-watcr'd shore, Stringing slow with sullen roar : Or, it the air will not permit, Some still removed place...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Fir from all resort of mirth, 8m Hi.' cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drowsy charm, To bless... | |
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