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...the world escaped, In still retreats and flowery solitudes, On nature's voice attends." TASK. '• Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat, To...At a safe distance, where the dying sound falls, a faint murmur*, on th' miinjmM ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease, The globe and its concerns,...

...wonders, wond'ring for his bread. *Tis pleasant, throngh tha loopholes of retreat, To peep at snch a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the ronr she sends throngh all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sonnd Falls a soft mnrmnr...

...listen to the roar of its waves, breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean. " 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...sends through all her gates. At a safe distance.'' In the morning all is calm, — not a mouse stirring before ten o'clock ; the shops then begin to open....

...submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat. To...crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gate* At a safe distance, where the dying sound . Falls a soft murmur on th' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting,...

...breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean. LONDON-MORNING-MILK-THE GUARDS. 25 " 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To...Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sefids through all her gates, At a safe distance." In the morning all is calm, — not a mouse stirring...

...listen to the roar of its waves, breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean. " '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...

...roar of its waves, breaking around us in measured time, like the tides of the ocean ! " Tis piratant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such...feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through ail her gate« At a safe distance." ' In the morning all is calm, — not a mouse stirring before ten...

...on end At his own wouders, woud'ring for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retrcai, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on tl>' uninjur'd ear. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanc'd...

...been talking in sober prose, I have chosen some lines of Cowper's to suit the subject. Listen ! " ' 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To...stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.' D I mentally reversed the poet's fancy, for, as regards freedom from observation, London might be called...