...rising ground I hear the far-off cuiiew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still, removed...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...

...prose, " the bloomy flush of life is all fled but one old woman." Ritson. Yet Milton could write : Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bell-man's drowsy charm—- and I dare say he was right. 0 never let a quaker, or a woman, try 447...

...rising ground, I hear the far-off curfen sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or if the air will not permit, Some still,...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...

...couvre-feu, that is, cover-fire. See the Glossary tp Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, 75 80 Chaucer. And the two following...

...sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swi inging slow with sull if the air will not per llen roar j Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed...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...

...rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, H Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of...

...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, 75 80 Chaucer. 'And the two following lines, with the frequent alliteration of the letter s, inimitably...

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

...like a ihade. Or, utter all, the author might perhaps take the hint from himself in his II Penseroso, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. 72. In utter darkness.] Dr. Bentley reads outer here and in many other places of this poem, because...

...aloud at any time ; but if we were to take them up, on VOL. XIV. some winter evening, in the country, " Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom," " while rocking winds are piping loud" among leafless boughs, or roaring down the chimney, or the rain...