 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.  Miscellanies - Page 130by Stephen Collins - 1842 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 pages
...principal cause, to the want of discipline in the nniversities. THE TASK. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. O 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 ! My... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...principal cause, to the want of discipline in the Universities. THE TASK. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. On 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 ! My ear... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 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 contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear... | |
 | Home missionary society - 1842 - 348 pages
...word solitude means. It is very easy, in this country, to exclaim, or sing over a piano-forte, " Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade ; " but come with me to Canada, if you wish to know the reality as well as the poetry. I had no idea... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 pages
...the shore, I returned to the boat, having less sympathy than ever with the longing of Cowper : — " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade.'' And yet as I stood upon the deck of the steamer, on the following morning, looking back on that scene... | |
 | H. N. Fairchild - 2010 - 428 pages
...moods when even this withdrawal is insufficient to stifle his horror at the news the postboy brings: 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. My ear... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 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 contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more." —... | |
 | Ernest W. Nicholson - 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 contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My... | |
 | 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 contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My... | |
 | 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... | |
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