 | 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
...^Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanc'd... | |
 | 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,...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 - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanc'd... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, /Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering...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 pages
...Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, iEtheral journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering...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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...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...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. . . v'J Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease /. .„ ff.'\ The glohe and it's concerns,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...JEthereal journirs, submarine exploits. And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes...her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Palls a soft murmur on tlf uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and it's... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end, At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease, The globe and its concerns, I seem advanc'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
..../Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes...the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd; 90 To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls... | |
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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... 
