 | 1795 - 466 ページ
...themselves, 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...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 - 1801 - 280 ページ
...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,,... | |
 | 1802 - 302 ページ
...submarine 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, Frognall - 1807 - 388 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 ページ
...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 - 1807 - 386 ページ
...Albemarle Street. William Savage, Printer, Bedford Bury. THE DIRECTOR. No. 16. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1807'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, To peep at such a world. COWPEB'S Task, b. iv. ABOUT three weeks ago, I was walking with ray old friend SIR Vic ARY VELLUM,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 ページ
...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 - 384 ページ
...submarine exploits, And Katcrfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; T ) hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1815 - 436 ページ
...listen to the roar of its waves, breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean. " '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... | |
 | E. M. L., Emily M. Lawson - 1871 - 224 ページ
...been 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...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... | |
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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... 
