 | Freemasonry - 1795 - 466 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...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... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...add oxe paragraph more, by which this masterly portrait will be completed: — Tis pleasant, thro' the loop-holes of retreat, To peep at such a world,...stir » Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends thro' all her gates, , At a safe 'distance where the dying sound Falls... | |
 | 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,,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...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... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...submarine exploits. And Katerfelto, 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 ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Palls... | |
 | 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...90 To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and... | |
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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 ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the... 
