 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pàgines
...consequent evils, ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. O FOB a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity...unsuccessful or 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... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 pàgines
...alas ! I will retire to the jungle, and live with wild beasts," says the broken-hearted widow. " Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade." COWPEB. 26. — " Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon and Moab, and all that are... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1963 - 136 pàgines
...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 - 1973 - 246 pàgines
...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...unsuccessful or 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... | |
 | 1898 - 798 pàgines
...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...unsuccessful 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 816 pàgines
...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 - 1863 - 432 pàgines
...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 - 1981 - 404 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Henry Charlton Beck - 1983 - 368 pàgines
...treat, indeed, and that all of us, due to command performance, ate too much. 17 ROLLING STONES GATHER "O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of depression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more." WILLIAM COWPER... | |
 | Catharine Parr Traill - 1986 - 388 pàgines
...1784, Book 2: "The Time-Piece," 11. 1-2; in Southey's edition of Cowper's works, the lines read: "OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade." See The Works of William Cowper, Esq. Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. Ed. Robert... | |
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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. 
