 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...  Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer - Page 4731839Full view - About this book
 | William Hone - Great Britain - 1838 - 890 pages
...wand'ring for his bread. 'Tts pleasant, through the loopholes of retre-.t, 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... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...collected industriously. Then, indeed, through such a loophole we might really peep at the world, and " see the stir of the great Babel and not feel the crowd." But now, let us look at the contrast. Does any body suppose that the expense in money of an establishment... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...(air ladies. Amid us sits the bard himself, all alive to tbi 1839.] Cowper's Poetry and Letters. 473 charms of woman's blest society, and of happy seclusion...back, and our evening's joy shall be, — " To see the «tir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd." Blessed be Lady Austen, — the only Task-master... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...top, I was safe from a pop. '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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...wondering for his bread. 'Tt> 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 erowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 pages
...Cowper, might exclaim, " 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 the dying sound "... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - Education - 1840 - 328 pages
...perhaps, be pardoned. " 'T is 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...wond'ring for his bread. '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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...could gain from the ' busy map of life' — a newspaper ; or through the ' loop, holes of retreat, to see the stir of the great Babel and not feel the crowd.' I knew a lady whose feelings in thisrespect strongly resembled those of Cowper, who assured me, she... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1841 - 474 pages
...world than could be found in that ' busy map of life,' a newspaper ; or from the loop-holes of retreat, to see the ' stir of the great Babel,' and not feel the crowd. He took delight in hearing the music of the church-bells, or the dash of the breakers — in scanning... | |
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