 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 sivua
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end, At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat,...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates, At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 sivua
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, wkh his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. ^Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 454 sivua
...the world escaped, In still retreats and flowery solitudes, On nature's voice attends." TASK. '• Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd, To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound falls, a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 496 sivua
...wonders, wond'ring for his bread. *Tis pleasant, throngh tha loopholes of retreat, To peep at snch a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the ronr she sends throngh all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sonnd Falls... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1815 - 442 sivua
...listen to the roar of its waves, breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean. " 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates. At a safe distance.'' In the morning all is calm,... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1815 - 408 sivua
...breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean. LONDON-MORNING-MILK-THE GUARDS. 25 " 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sefids through all her gates, At a safe distance." In the morning all is calm,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 sivua
...submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat. To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gate* At a safe distance, where the dying sound . Falls... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 sivua
...roar of its waves, breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean ! " Tis piratant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through ail her gate« At a safe distance." ' In the morning all is calm,... | |
 | E. M. L., Emily M. Lawson - 1871 - 224 sivua
...been talking in sober prose, I have chosen some lines of Cowper's to suit the subject. Listen ! " ' 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To...stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.' D I mentally reversed the poet's fancy, for, as regards freedom from observation, London might be called... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1817 - 592 sivua
...de l'Océan. • .• • . : .-I . " ,'• ': .• . 1 .;.'... 'Tis pleasant thppugh the loojnholes of retreat. . To peep at such a world to see the stir Of the great Babel , and not feel the cfow'd ; To hear the roar she sends through ail her gates At a safe distance. MATINÉE ET JOURNÉE... | |
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the... 
