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 29by William Cowper - 1826Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. THE TASK. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...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. There is... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...coDseqnent evils, ascribed, as to it's principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. 0 FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is paln'd, My soul IB sick, with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which Earth is nll'd. There... | |
| John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1830 - 902 pages
...from woful Europe" and for " peace and safety on our sylvan shore." Such could feelingly say, — " Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness Some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war • Might never reach !" The original inequality of the surface of Philadelphia was once much greater than any present observer... | |
| John Galt - English fiction - 1830 - 230 pages
...weakness, as cool, sensible, and collected, as I had ever been in my life. CHAPTER XI. s ' • " Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade." Mr recovery was very slow-^the dregs of the fever remained long about me, and it was at one time thought... | |
| John Galt - English fiction - 1830 - 320 pages
...for the weakness, as cool, sensible, and collected, as I had ever been in my life. CHAPTER XI. " Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade." Mv recovery was very slow — the dregs of the fever remained long about me, and it was at one time... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...consequent evil*, ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. wh pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled There... | |
| William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...Now here is priestcraft and aristocracy among the heathen* Observe its uniformity all over the world. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade. Waere ru.Tiaur of oppression and decietj Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.... | |
| Robert Vaughan - Christian life - 1832 - 450 pages
...impression of such things that led the humane, the devout, the high-born soul of Cowper to exclaim, O 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 Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of himself. AKEXSIDE. 4 ON SLAVERY. O 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. There... | |
| Elizabeth Holmes - 1832 - 300 pages
...Their pastoral warfare guide them well! ONE PAGE IN MY LIFE RECORDED ON THE 31st OF OCTOBER, 1831. t)! 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.... | |
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