| Louis Simond - 1815 - 442 pagina’s
...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...sends through all her gates. At a safe distance.'' In the morning all is calm, — not a mouse stirring before ten o'clock ; the shops then begin to open.... | |
| William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pagina’s
...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...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' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting,... | |
| Louis Simond - 1815 - 408 pagina’s
...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...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, — not a mouse stirring... | |
| Louis Simond - 1815 - 436 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 pagina’s
...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...feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through ail her gate« At a safe distance." ' In the morning all is calm, — not a mouse stirring before ten... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 248 pagina’s
...on end At his own wouders, woud'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retrcai, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on tl>' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanc'd... | |
| E. M. L., Emily M. Lawson - 1871 - 224 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pagina’s
...exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his hread. ".I 'is pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Bahel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends throngh all her gates At a safe distance,... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pagina’s
...Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his hread. 'Tis pleasant throngh the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Bahel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends throngh all her gates At a sate distance,... | |
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