 | John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1832 - 410 pages
...can resist. 6. O 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 js pained, My soul is sick, with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which, earth is filled.... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...the fair. Sweet smiles, and bloom, less transient than her own. NO. 94. RETREAT FROM WICKEDNESS OH 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... | |
 | Isaac Fidler - Atlantic States - 1833 - 466 pages
...it would now be difficult for a poet to realize the aspiration of Cowper, at least in Canada : — " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, might never reach me more." In addition to the numerous settlements and FERTILITY OF CANADA. 355 clearances, which serve as loop-holes... | |
 | Isaac Fidler - Atlantic States - 1833 - 306 pages
...it would now be difficult for a poet to realize the aspiration of Cowper, at least in Canada : — "O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, might never reach me more." In addition to the numerous settlements and clearances, which serve as loop-holes for ^Eolus and Phoebus,... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - English fiction - 1833 - 214 pages
...he drew his hand across his forehead and exclaimed, 'Oh for a lodge in some va«t wildernes•i, A boundless contiguity of shade ! Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful, or successful war Should never reach me more •." 'What! you, Charles, turned admirer of "The soft and piping iime of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - Draft - 1963 - 136 pages
...record. Chairman RUSSELL. Very well. (The resolution referred to is as follows:) 3. MILITARY AFFAIRS "Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more." — William Cowper. UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING We believe that universal military training would further... | |
 | Ernest W. Nicholson - Religion - 1973 - 246 pages
...in eighteenth-century England, paraphrased in his poem 'The Time-Piece' (Book Two of The Task): 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. 2.... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1898 - 798 pages
...Angleterre, de 1818 à 1848. Géographie. 1. La Baltique. 3. Madagascar. 2. La Provence. Version anglaise. Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My car is pained, My soûl is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with \vhich earth is filled,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 816 pages
...all ? Pitiful automatons — despicable Yahoos — yea, they are altogether an unsufferable thing. " O ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade, where" the scowl of the purse-proud Nabob, the sneer and strut of the coxcomb, the bray of the ninny and the... | |
 | Henry Hudson Holly - Architecture, Domestic - 1863 - 432 pages
...summer. The philosophers of Cambridge and the sportsmen of Gotham have not only, like Cowper, longed " for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade," but have made a prophecy of their desires and set up their rude household gods in the bosom of the... | |
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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. 
