 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...bread. '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 th' uninjur'd... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...bread. '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 th' uninjur'd... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...bread. '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 uninjured... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...''1'is pleasant throng!) the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world : to ?ec the stir Of the stains, And lit her for her passage ! mournful sight ! He sends through all her gales At a safe distance where the dying soitnd Falls a sofi murmur on th' untnjur'd... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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 Palls a soft murmur on tlf uninjur'd... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...'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 th' uninjur'd... | |
 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 556 pages
...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 faint murmur*, on th'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...bread. ^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 th' uninjur'd... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1815 - 442 pages
...'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.'' In the morning all is calm, — not a mouse stirring... | |
 | Louis Simond - Great Britain - 1815 - 408 pages
...'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 sefids through all her gates, At a safe distance." In the morning all is calm, — not a mouse stirring... | |
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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... 
