 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 37by William Cowper - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...last remember it. This continued effort of voluntary remembrance is called recollection. BeatlK. О for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! Cowper. Called by thy voice, contiguous thoughts embrace In endless streams, arranged by time or... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...on slavery. 1. OH, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, |lfls Some boundless contiguity of shade, ~" Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd. My soul is sick with every day's report Orwrong and outrage with which earth is fill'A. There is no flush in man's obdurate... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...COTTFKB. SECTION XI. Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred; and o» slavery. 1. OH, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's ob lurate heart ; It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd, as the flax... | |
 | 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...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 no flesh in man's obdurate... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Mary Breckinridge - Medical - 1981 - 404 pages
...spent a summer's day in the saddle. Whenever I rode up to it myself, I thought of Cowper's lines: Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade . . . It seems to me, in looking back over my first few years in the mountains, that I was always riding... | |
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