 BOOK II.—THE TIMEPIECE. OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report Might never reach me more ! My ear...  Poems ...by William Cowper - 1885 - 334 pagesSnippet view - About this book
 | Catherine Read Williams - Fall River (Mass.) - 1834 - 212 pages
...UTHENT1C NARRATIVE, BY THE AUTHOR OF "TALES, NATIONAL, REVOLUTIONARY," ftc. *c. " Oh for a Lodge En some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit Can never reach me more. My souJ is sick with every day's report Of the world's baseness." ' .SOLD... | |
 | Richard Sharp - English literature - 1834 - 290 pages
...the tautology and pomposity of the first. Cowper has committed the same fault when he exclaims— " Oh! for a lodge in some vast wilderness! " Some boundless contiguity of shade!" He should have stopped at the end of the first line; or, if he wished to dwell on the intensity of... | |
 | Richard Sharp - English literature - 1834 - 324 pages
...avoided both tautology and pomposity of the first. Cowper has committed the same fault when exclaims— " Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness ! " Some boundless contiguity of shade !" He should have stopped at the end of the 1 line ; or, if he wished to dwell on the intensity of... | |
 | Hugh I'Anson Fausset - English poetry - 1923 - 306 pages
...inanimate world with its peaceful vegetation. God made the country, and man made the town, he cried, and Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...oppression and deceit, Of 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... | |
 | Alfred George Gardiner - Great Britain - 1923 - 642 pages
...Forest in the previous year had made him, in the words that were frequently on his lips, hunger— For a lodge in some vast wilderness. Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where wars and rumours of oppression Shall never reach me more. And in the New Forest he found the solitude... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1854 - 580 pages
...ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. THE TASK. BOOK IL THE TIME-PIECE. OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness,...oppression and deceit, Of 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... | |
 | Ada Goodrich-Freer - Arabs - 1924 - 370 pages
...surely, one could rest, however weary—as all were weary to death—of the strife of man. The cry, " Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness ! some boundless contiguity of shade I " might well find answer here. And then early one morning, while the dew was still shining on the... | |
 | West Virginia - 1926 - 1144 pages
...wilderness a lodging place of way-faring men. And Cowper came along in due time and lifted the thought: "Oh for a lodge In some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more." A distant... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - Country life in literature - 1928 - 334 pages
...disgust of society inspired her with the same thought to which Cowper gave utterance in the lines: O for a lodge in some vast wilderness. Some boundless...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more! * Lady Winchilsea expressed it thus: Give me O indulgent Fate! Give me yet,... | |
 | Dallas Lore Sharp - West (U.S.) - 1928 - 300 pages
...whole front of it, and very much aware of it, and (Daphne says) very much addicted to it. Maybe so. But Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade! had often been my cry, whether Daphne had ever heard me utter it or not. And here it was, a car, to... | |
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