 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...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 in some high lonely tow'r, "Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...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 some high lonely tow'r, . Where I may oft outwatch the bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato,... | |
 | 1804 - 496 pages
...grasped a rope to keep my feet steady on the shitting deck, I found myself involuntarily muttering.... Let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Hewn out of peaked rock that laves His foot ui.h all the world of waves. Smeaton anticipates the curiosity... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...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 some high lonely tow'r, Where 1 may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's drousy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm : Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, UTicre I may oft out-wateh the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unspbere The spirit of Plato... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm* To bless the doors from nightly barm; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Exploring Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold Th' immortal mind, that hath forsook... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...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 some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft out watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plate*,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...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 some high lonely tow'r, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 pages
...the erieket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy eharm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Exploring I'lato, to unfold AVhat worlds, or what vast regions hold Th* immortal mind, that hath forsook... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...his Hymn to the Naiads. Milton, in alluding to the same topics, has pursued the same track : « Or let my lamp at midnight hour " Be seen in some high lonely tow'r, " Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, " With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere " The spirit of... | |
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