 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 sivua
...counterfeit a gloom ; so 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 : Or let my lamp at midnight hour 85 Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, "Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 sivua
...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 nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Bo seen in some high lonely tow'r, Where 1 may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-^eat Hermes ; or... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 sivua
...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 nightly harm....unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or vl:ut vast regions hold. The immortn! mind that hath forsook And of those demons that are found In... | |
 | 1854 - 456 sivua
...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 nightly harm...lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1854 - 244 sivua
...counterfeit a gloom j 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 ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen m some high lonely tower, Exploring Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 sivua
...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 nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen on some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear,* With thrice great Hermes ,t or unsphere... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1854 - 1314 sivua
...than the mind.' Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be «een, in some high lonely tower, Where I may outwatch the Bear With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, cr what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in his fleshly nook ; And... | |
 | 1909 - 502 sivua
...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 nightly harm....lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 sivua
...the ocean. Milton alludes to the fact that the constellation of the Bear never sets, when he says: "Let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear," etc. And Prometheus, in JR Lowell's poem, says : "One after one the stars have risen and set, Sparkling... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 sivua
...in the tail of the Little Bear is the Polestar, or Cynosure (dog's tail). Illustrative. Milton's " Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outmatch the Bear " ( II Penseroso) ; and his " Where perhaps some beauty lies The cynosure of neighbouring... | |
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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 drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in... 
