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... The task; Tirocinium, etc - Page 25by William Cowper - 1875Full view - About this book
| 1797 - 610 pages
...THE EQUITY OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE. ELL might the elegant and judicious Cowper fay, My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with whifh earth is fill'd: For our world is the fcene of- univerfal oppreffion and in-, juftice. Let not... | |
| William Cowper - 1801 - 280 pages
...Our arch of empire, stedfast but for you, A mutilated structure, soon to fall. MORAL REFLECTIONS. vJH 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 ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. THE TASK. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. vyH 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 ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There... | |
| 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...successful 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.... | |
| 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...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 is... | |
| 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...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 —... | |
| 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 - 1808 - 338 pages
...TASK. THE TIME-PIECE. O FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some houndless contiguity of shade, Wfeere rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or...successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, . My soul is sick, with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which Earth is fffi'd.... | |
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