 | 1801 - 452 pagina’s
...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,...and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends thro' all her gates, , At a safe 'distance where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjured... | |
 | William Cowper - 1801 - 280 pagina’s
...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,,... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pagina’s
...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 - 1802 - 364 pagina’s
...his bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world; to fee the flir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; To hear the roar lhe fends through all her gatei At a fafe diftance,- where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 362 pagina’s
...his bread. 'Tis pleafant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at fuch a world } to fee the (tir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar fhc fends through all htr gates At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 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 flie fends through all her gate At a fafe diftance, where the dying found Falls a foft murmur on th'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pagina’s
...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...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pagina’s
...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...and not feel the crowd; To hear the roar she sends tbrough all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured... | |
 | 1806 - 594 pagina’s
...were, withoa Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd feeling " the crowd ;" to " hear thf «ar. COWPER. roar she sends through all her gates, " at a safe distance," where the re|x>rt IF those who have been lon» accus- of it serves merely to diversify and enforiied to public... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pagina’s
...Albemarle Street. William Savage, Printer, Bedford Bury. THE DIRECTOR. No. 16. SATURDAY, MAY 9, ISO?. 'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, To peep at such a world. COWPER'S Task, b. iv. ABOUT three weeks ago, I was walking with my old friend SIR VICARY VELLUM, in... | |
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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... 
