 | Freemasonry - 1795 - 466 pages
...yet fear to break, What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns ? Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep...stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd." A NEWSPAPER is so true a type of the caprice and levity of Englishmen, that it may be stilcd their... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...submarine exploits, .And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his broad, Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the. great Habel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates .At a safc distance,,... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...exploits, 85 And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. H 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Qf the great Babel, and not feel the crowd i 90 To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pages
...Albemarle Street. William Savage, Printer, Bedford Bury. THE DIRECTOR. No. 16. SATURDAY, MAY 9, ISO?. 'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, To peep at such a world. COWPER'S Task, b. iv. ABOUT three weeks ago, I was walking with my old friend SIR VICARY VELLUM, in... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall - Periodicals - 1807 - 388 pages
...Albemarle Street. William Savage, Printer, Bedford Bury, THE DIRECTOR. No. 16. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 180?, 'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, To peep at such a world. COWPEK'S Task, b. iv.» ABOUT three weeks ago, I was walking with my old friend SIR VICARY VELLUM,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...own wonders, wond'ring for his hread, -.-ii ^H o-..- .->....ii .- '. .'.i;"i 7vj eui bi»3*A "J'ii pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir . . .iU"' Of the great Bahel, and not feel the crowd ; . ... . . .'' To hear the roar she sends through... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...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 - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...wonders, wond'ring for his bread. *Tis pleasant, throngh tha loopholes of retreat, To peep at snch a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the ronr she sends throngh all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sonnd Falls a soft mnrmnr... | |
 | E. M. L., Emily M. Lawson - 1871 - 224 pages
...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 peep...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...suhmarine 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,... | |
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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... 
