...And fungous fruits of earth, regales the sense With luxury of unexpected sweets. WINTER EVENING. 'Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world; to sec the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her...

...of intestate persons. So much for Doctors' Commons — a convenient loophole of retreat from which to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. But here we must bring our survey to a close. It has been directed to the London of the Past rather...

...and dale, wood and corn-fields, and reminding the gazer unconsciously of Cowper's lines — " 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world." The population was for the most part agricultural, but there were some gentlemen's seats in the neighbourhood,...

...healthy tone of reading, writing, talking, thinking, walking, praying, singing &o. Cowper says, — ' Tis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat To peep...stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.' Yes, it is pleasant to look into a newspaper, to see how this mad world is going on, without embroiling...

...from the denser throngs of men, and shadowed by the trees. He quotes Cowper on his title-page : "Tia pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep...the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. And altogether he appears to be a writer of much respectability, whose evidence touching the events...

...of the world and earth, on the nature of things, on the influence and power of the immortal gods." " 'T is pleasant through the loopholes of retreat " To peep at such a world." 123 SABONIDES. 'They awoke one morning and found themselves famous." AGAIN, Greek philosophers point...

...tumultuous centres of population. Here, if anywhere, we might hope, from our loop-hole of retreat, " to see the stir of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd." But, ah ! the single, solitary, throbbing human heart is itself sometimes a Babel, compared to which...

...submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world j to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all...

...who are tired of the bustling noise of the world, will also find by perusing these pages that "'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world : to see the stir Of this great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; Nor hear the roaring din. through all its streets, At a...

...to see and understand, and sympathize with the movements and actions of the mighty world around, — -"To see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd." And if the newspaper be conducted in a religious spirit, how many lessons can we learn from it —...