 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - 712 pagina’s
...longer fretted by the outer battle of life, he may serenely look * through the loopholes of retreat,' 'to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.' Here, too, we hope to preserve the records and personal relics of his profession, so that when the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1786 - 608 pagina’s
...paffage: ' 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world. To fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar me fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pagina’s
...bread. Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat - • To peep at fuch a world. To fee the ftir Of Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 pagina’s
...bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To,peep at fuch a world ; to fee the ftir Of Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates, ' At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pagina’s
...his bread. ,Tis plcafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world ; to fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates, At .At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pagina’s
...his bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retrea To i>eep at fuch a world. To fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar foe fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pagina’s
...his bread, 'Tis pleafant thro' the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world ; to lee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; To hear the roar Ihe fends thro' all her gates At a fafe c'.iftance, where the dying found Fills a foft murmur on th'uninjur'd... | |
 | 1791 - 980 pagina’s
...his bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world. To Ice the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar me fends through all her gates At a lafc diftance, where the dying (bund F^lls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 pagina’s
...his bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world; to fee the ftir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar fhe fends through all her gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | 1795 - 466 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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 Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured... 
