| William Cowper - 1836 - 206 ページ
...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...successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with ev'ry days report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 416 ページ
...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...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.... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 404 ページ
...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...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.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1963 - 136 ページ
...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... | |
| 1898 - 798 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 - 1863 - 432 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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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