| Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...race." To these sentiments permit me to add another, in the words of Cowper : ' O for a lodge in aome vast wilderness, ' Some boundless contiguity of shade,...unsuccessful, or successful war, ' Might never reach me more !' When I began this letter, it was my intention to pursue those reflections which you started, on... | |
| Jacob Halls Drew - Clergy - 1835 - 384 pages
...the human race.' To these sentiments permit me to add another, in the words of Cowper : — ' 0 for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more !' " When I began this letter, it was my intention to pursue those reflections which you started on... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 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...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 is no flesh in man's obdurate... | |
| 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...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. There is... | |
| Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...of the fowl and the brute. g. COWPEB — Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. Oh, for t be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set...HENRY W ABD BEECHES — Life Thoughts. Westward the ! r. COWPKH— The Task. Bk. II. L. 1. 0 solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...in some vast wilderness — Some boundless contiguity of space, Where rumor of oppression and deceit Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd, My soul...report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. COWPER. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1896 - 428 pages
...fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here." The one indignantly protests: — " My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled; Man devotes his brother and destroys. And what man seeing this, And having human feelings,... | |
| Daniel B. Shepp - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1897 - 542 pages
...boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successtul war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pain'd,...man's obdurate heart — It does not feel for man. That natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He... | |
| William John Clarke Miller - Bird watching - 1899 - 248 pages
...the poor doctor, and we are entirely on his side. In his agony he seems to cry out : — " Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness ; Some boundless contiguity...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! " He wants his wife to pack up and begone with him to other scenes, the sooner the better. But, on... | |
| English poetry - 1899 - 816 pages
...empire, steadfast but for you, A mutilated structure, soon to fall. BOOK II.— THE TIME-PIECE Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, 5 Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and... | |
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