 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 pages
...conflict, must have experienced, — the veteran royalist, in the language of Cowper, might exclaim, " Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, "...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,... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 300 pages
...the amiable poet, are so appropriate, that a quotation from them may, 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,... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1841 - 264 pages
...that cheer, but not inebriate: And what an insight does he give you to his own heart, as he says, " 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,... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 7. 'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat,...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...submarine exploits, 85 And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, 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 ; 00 To hear the roar she sends through all her gate* At a safe distance,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...submarine exploits, 85 And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of th<5 great Babel, and not feel the crowd J 90 To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1843 - 276 pages
...mind of the amiable poet, are so appropriate, that a quotation from them may, perhaps, be pardoned. " "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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto,* with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. of Political Economy, p. 57. J machines a* the ship...of the sailor, the mill of the fuller, or even th Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...exploite, And Katterfelto,* with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tie d Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovel sec the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; Tu hear the roar she sends through all her... | |
 | John Lawrence - 1844 - 108 pages
... V. ". LONDON IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY %9ocm, IN THREE BOOKS. BY JOHN LAWREN " 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat, To peep at such a world—to see the stir W the great BABEL." WANTAGE; COWPER. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. AND G. LEWIS... | |
| |
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... 
