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The english anthology. - Page 41
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...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 belman's drowsy charm, To bless...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, of his English historical plays had been acted. The supposition that Sh ; Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...aware that anybody noticed it before him. It is evidently the original of the passage in Milton :— Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. Observe the pause at the words looked in. MALBECCO SEES HELLENORE DANCING WITH THE SATYRS Character,...
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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' Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. 7503 7/ Penseroso' Or bid the soul of...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...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 bless the doors...
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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
...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 a gloom. Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless...
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Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary

Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 520 pages
...much like a shade." Or, after all Milton might have taken the hint from his own "II Penseroso" 7980, "where glowing Embers through the room / Teach light to counterfeit a gloom." [N] f Sandys, "Paraphrase of Job," [p.22], "A land where death, confusion, endless night / And horrour...
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