...the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room 13 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,...

...still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloomj 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...

...farm-house, where the winds passed through, sad the rains lodged, often taking refuge in his own kitchen— Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth '. In a letterf of ihe disconsolate founder of landscape* gardening, our author paints his situation...

...plants are not wetted it will die. LETTER XLVII. To THE HON. DAINES BARRINGTON. DEAR SIR, Selborne. •* Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth." MILTON'S /; Penseroso. WHILE many other insects must be sought after in fields and * We hare observed...

...and contemplative ; for doubtless there are seasons when, like II Penseroso, she wishes to be — ' Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth ; ' and certainly the resemblance is obvious to the field crickets, of whom White, of Selborne, says,...

...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 from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour,...

...(and, indeed, most commonly afterwards, notwithstanding my having a partner) I was living alone, " Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth." and, had I not been for the most part very actively engaged, I should, doubtless, have felt the solitude...

...any pause after the word eyes. Handel has made a still greater mistake, in the following example : " Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth." — Milton. for he not only makes a pause after the word save, but he repeats the word emphatically,...

...the spirit and coloring of these lines, to those very similar ones in the Penseroso of Milton : — " 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 ; While glowing embers, through...

...the spirit and coloring of these lines, to those very similar ones in the Penseroso of Milton: — " 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; While glowing embers, through...