 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 ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage...  The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Page 208by William Cowper - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1816 - 468 pages
...disengaged from the duties which bind me to my profession, " Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, " Some boundless contiguity of shade, " Where rumour...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
...disengaged from the duties which bind me to my profession, " Oh! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, " Some boundless contiguity of shade, " Where rumour...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
...principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. O FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of...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. There is no flesh in man's obdurate... | |
 | 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...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 T here is no flebh... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 1844 - 826 pages
...sincerity, and with all the weariness too, of the poet: — " Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of...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... | |
 | Noah Worcester - 1817 - 312 pages
...merely oxen, but HUMAN VICTIMS, are sacrificed by HECATOMBS, by THOUSANDS, and even by MYRIADS ! -" My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. Then what is man ? And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 pages
...oppre^sien andi deceit^ ' Blight never reach me more ! My ear is pain*t!, My soul is eick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with, .which earth...fill'd,. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart ; It^oes not feel for man. The nat'ral hond., Ot" brotheihooi! is sever'd, as the flnx ТЫ falls asunder... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...and never was author freer from bombast. When he exclaims Oh ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of...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... | |
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