 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Courteous." SHAESPERE. — As You Like it, Act V. Scene 4. (Touchstone to Jaques.; RETREAT.— Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep...the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd. COWPER.— The Task, Book IV. Line 88. In all the trade of war, no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Tis 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; To hear the roar she sends through all her... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...• IS • • " • '. : ••;.• | ABOUT IN THE WORLD By the Author of " The Gentle Life. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world and see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd." COVVPF.R London: SAMPSON LOW, SON, &... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...evening in. Ibid. And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat....the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. Ibid. While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. Ibid.... | |
 | Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - Allusions - 1889 - 516 pages
...opens the evening paper " To learn the news from noisy London, and the universe." ************* " Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; " and with perfect content he closes The Winter Evening :— " And God gives to every man The virtue,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - English fiction - 1890 - 328 pages
...companion. ' 'Tis pleasant,' she said one day as the door closed upon the last departing guest — ' "'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd " — The trade of being an old lady is not such a bad one, is it, Olivia ? Every one is so kind to... | |
 | Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - Art - 1889 - 432 pages
...opens the evening paper " To learn the news from noisy London, and the universe." ************* " 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; " and with perfect content he closes The Winter Evening: — " And God gives to every man The virtue,... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...life. 428-431. Recollections of his native Teviotdale. 433-436- Cp. Cowper's Task, Bk. IV :— ' 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat To peep...stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd,' &c.— 11. 88-90. 437. idly busy. Cp. Goldsmith's Traveller — ' Thus idly busy rolls their world... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - Canada - 1893 - 722 pages
...into sickness of body and mind, instead of finding strength for both where — " Tis pleasant thro' the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world,...see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the stir " in scenes of natural beauty and peace, " In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy... | |
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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... 
