| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 páginas
...peaceful evening in. The Tusk 1 1 78 s I bk. 4 The Winter Evening' I. 34; cf. Berkeley h 7:19 32 "Fis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world; to see the stir 241 242 1 I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness. The Task... | |
| Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 - 284 páginas
...newspaper, he feels how fully his "other views" separate him from the public world that it represents: Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ... Thus sitting and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced To some secure... | |
| Peter Homans - 2000 - 276 páginas
...writes that the phrase "loophole of retreat" is "a reference to William Cowper's 'The Task,' IV. 8890": "Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, /...stir / Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd." Yellin notes that "Jacobs was not the first Afro- American to use Cowper's phrase." In 1838 the phrase... | |
| Stephen Herbert - 2000 - 178 páginas
...(Engraving after a painting by JB Schénau from Pugin's Dictionnaire du Théâtre) Peepshows and Panoramas To peep at such a world — to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. COWPER THE aerial images projected by magicians with the aid of concave mirrors, and the phantoms flung... | |
| Ann Satterthwaite - 2001 - 412 páginas
...William Cowper, an eighteenth-century poet who extolled the countryside, is printed on this poster: "Fis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat To peep...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... | |
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