 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 - Σελίδα 3301839Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1906 - 410 σελίδες
...high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow. /. G. Whittier. 61 """TMS pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, -*• To peep at such a world ; to see the slir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates... | |
 | 1856 - 712 σελίδες
...troubled time, he could not extinguish the interest he felt in the great family to which he belonged — " 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To...dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjured ear." And the wretchedness of actual isolation from society he himself finely describes in his lines supposed... | |
 | Ellye Howell Glover - 1907 - 336 σελίδες
...words are faint! 263 Have a heart with room for every joy. O, why has happiness so short a day ? 'T is pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep...the stir Of the Great Babel and not feel the crowd. Here's a toast to all who are here, No matter where you're from: May the best day you have seen Be... | |
 | Henry Elmsley Busteed - 1908 - 522 σελίδες
...with the crowd." CHAPTER VII PHILIP FRANCIS AND HIS TIMES 5.— HOME AND SOCIAL LIFE, 1774-1780 (I) " 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world." UNDER this heading it is proposed to say something about the general routine of life in Calcutta during... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1909 - 292 σελίδες
...but the buyers ask no questions. The bearers with their embroidered caps are so picturesque ! 'T is pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir [ I04] Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates... | |
 | 1910 - 322 σελίδες
...: — (i.) In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm (ii.) 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. (iii.) And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. (iv.) Where they do agree on the... | |
 | Alfred Austin - 1910 - 276 σελίδες
...not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Farther on, he describes how — 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced To some secure... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1910 - 684 σελίδες
...only ken, To whom the heart is seen, That nane can be sae dear to me As my sweet lovely Jean ! (4) 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to Bee the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 σελίδες
...here? Health, leisure, means t' improve it, friendship, peace. 4294 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 687. 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. 4295 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 88. Hackney'd in business, wearied at that oar, Which thousands, once... | |
 | Thomas James Walker - 1913 - 426 σελίδες
...battles of Buonaparte. What a tale is told by those holes cut by the prisoners in the outer walls ! Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world. Poor fellows, the peep they got through the holes they cut was their only share for years of the world... | |
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