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. The Christian's sketch book - Page 303by Jabez Burns - 1829 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1816 - 468 pages
...— I should rather say, if I were once disengaged from the duties which bind me to my profession, " Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, " Some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, " Might never reach me more !'' To conclude — If you think my Clients, or any of them, guilty, you are bound to convict them... | |
| James Ridgway - 1816 - 466 pages
...her.—I should rather say, if I were once disengaged from the duties which bind me to my profession, " Oh! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, " Some boundless...or successful war, " Might never reach me more!'' To conclude—If you think my Clients, or any of them, guilty, you are bound to convict them; but,... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 248 pages
...consequent evils, ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. 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 day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which Earth is fill'd.... | |
| 1844 - 826 pages
...rest. I could have exelaimed with all the sincerity, and with all the weariness too, of the poet: — " Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more !" But, perhaps fortunately for my understanding, if not for my life, I was not suffered to take refuge... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 pages
...were not stained," RESISTLESS APPEAL TO THE HUMAN HEART. OH, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Seme boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression...successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is paiu'd* My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report • ; Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd.... | |
| Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...soon to fall. CHAPTER CXLIII. PEA..>: ASD BENEVOLE.VCt:. WH, tor a lodge in some vast wilderness tfome boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression...successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul i» sick, with every day s report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill d,r... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...the want of discipline in the uni\ersities. OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some houndless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, VOL. ii. E Might never reach me more. My ear is pained, My soul is sick, with every day's report Of... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pages
...of discipline in the uni<efsilies. OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some houndless continuity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, VoL. II. £ • 26 Tli I TASK. BooK II. Might never reach me more. My ear is pained, My soul is sick,... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...used very sparingly, arc just and beautiful; and never was author freer from bombast. When he exclaims Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more! . For I am sick . it is evident that this is no rhetorical flourishing, such was the language of his... | |
| William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...discipline in the universities. OH ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless continuity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ....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 is filled.... | |
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