OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more... Poems - Page 47by William Cowper - 1800 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1802 - 302 pages
...universities*. BOOK II, THE TIME-PIECE. \_./H for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless continuity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of...war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, 5 My soul is sick, with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is fill'd. There... | |
| Thomas H. Williams - 1804 - 202 pages
...must in consequence too often prevail. Had Cowper visited Culbone, he would not have exclaimed, " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, " Some boundless...contiguity of shade, " Where rumour of oppression might never reach " My ear." He might here have found a solitude independent of a desert, and an uninterrupted... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...consequent evils, ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pained, My soul is sick, with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled.... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1806 - 480 pages
...ness, of these little creatures. " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity ot shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful...reach me more ! My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd — • Lands, intersected by a... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1807 - 468 pages
...the situation, or with expressions of disgust at the wicked-, ness, for these little creatures, " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd,My soul is sick with every day^s report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd— Lands,... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1807 - 486 pages
...situation^ or with expressions of disgust at the wicked-? ness, for these little creatures. '•' 0 for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, \Vhere rumour of oppression and deceit^ (5f unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more... | |
| Anne Bannerman - 1807 - 250 pages
...Hist. Amer. vol. it. NOTE i, p. 61. " O ! for a lodge, where Peace might love to dwell," tifc. O ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade! ' NOTEj, p. 67. SONNETS FROM PETRARCH, Sec. Cowper'i TatJct I, p. 69. Alma felice, che sovente torni,... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...to its principal cause, to the M ant of discipline in the unirersitie*. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. \}H for a lodge in some vast -wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. THE TASK. £00 K II. THE TIME-PIECE, OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness,...successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain1dr My soul is sick, with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There... | |
| 1811 - 424 pages
...on earth enjoy ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHILANTHROPIST. " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Snnic boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more 1 My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is... | |
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