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... Poems, - Página 121por William Cowper - 1803 - 363 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 páginas
...his bread. '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... | |
| John Tomlinson - 1869 - 192 páginas
...Cowper. " 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes 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... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 páginas
...his bread. '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 gate* At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th'... | |
| James Edmund Garretson - 1871 - 266 páginas
...suggestive poem of " The Task," " Through the loopholes of retreat To peep out at the 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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 132 páginas
...his bread. '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... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1872 - 168 páginas
...most intricate. 'Tis pleasant through the loophole 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... | |
| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 páginas
...LETTER-BAG. '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... | |
| William Cowper - 1872 - 290 páginas
...his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retroat 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 th'... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 páginas
...his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir ten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th'... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 236 páginas
...» * # * * '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 th'... | |
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