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... Southern Literary Messenger - Seite 3301839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanc'd... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with hia hair on end At hjs own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. T is pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat, To peep...sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where tbe dying sound Falls a soft mnrmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Tims sitting, and surveying thus at ease... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 Seiten
...submarine exploits, And K&terfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced... | |
| William Cowper - 1831 - 192 Seiten
...Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, jEtherial journeys, submarine exploits, 85 To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; 90 To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 Seiten
...submarine exp And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tit pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to sec the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd j To hear the roar she sends through all her... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...yet fear to break; What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? "Pis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced... | |
| George Miller - 1833 - 428 Seiten
...afforded,— through which,— as one might have said, in the language of Cowper :— " 'Tis pleasant To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...distance, — where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear." It may readily be supposed, that 1 would feel both exhilarated and gratified on... | |
| George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 Seiten
...afforded,—through which,—as one might have said, in the language of Cowper :— " 'Tis pleasant To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd, At a safe distance,—where the dying sound To hear the roar she sends through all her gates Falls... | |
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