 | William Hone - 2003 - 476 ページ
...submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wand'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir To hear the roar she sends through all her gates, At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a... | |
 | Kevis Goodman - 2004 - 268 ページ
...historical image as it flares up briefly. Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History" INTRODUCTION "'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat / To peep at such a world" (Task, 4.88-89): we are so accustomed to thinking of William Cowper as a figure of retirement that... | |
 | Kevis Goodman - 2004 - 268 ページ
...historical image as it flares up briefly. Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History" INTRODUCTION "'T1s pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat / To peep at such a world" (Task, 4.88-89): we are so accustomed to thinking of William Cowper as a figure of retirement that... | |
 | Christopher R. Miller - 2006 - 12 ページ
...content to use the "loop-holes of retreat" - the verbal apertures of articles and advertisements — "to see the stir of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd" (89— 90). 47 The evening trope of perceptual adjustment to darkness (hearing or fancying rather than... | |
 | Gail Cunningham, Stephen Barber - 2007 - 248 ページ
...different worlds, as indicated in the poster's text, an extract from William Cooper's 'Sanctuary': 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. By contrast, EC. Whitney's 'Home' (plate 1.4) is sombrely ambiguous. The returning male's hand hovering... | |
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At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *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 all her gates At a safe distance, where... 
