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 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...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 contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear... | |
 | William Cowper - 1801 - 280 pages
...Our arch of empire, stedfast but for you, A mutilated structure, soon to fall. MORAL REFLECTIONS. vJH 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... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pages
...TIME-PIECE. \_./H for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless continuity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. THE TASK. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. vyH 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... | |
 | Thomas H. Williams - 1804 - 202 pages
...must in consequence too often prevail. Had Cowper visited Culbone, he would not have exclaimed, " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, " Some boundless contiguity of shade, " Where rumour of oppression might never reach " My ear." He might here have found a solitude independent of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...consequent evils, ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...consequent evils,' ascribed, as to its prmcipal emise, to 'the want of discipline in the universities. • OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness. Some boundless contiguity of shade, \Yhere rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1807 - 486 pages
...situation^ or with expressions of disgust at the wicked-? ness, for these little creatures. '•' 0 for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, \Vhere rumour of oppression and deceit^ (5f unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more... | |
 | Anne Bannerman - 1807 - 250 pages
...Hist. Amer. vol. it. NOTE i, p. 61. " O ! for a lodge, where Peace might love to dwell," tifc. O ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade! ' NOTEj, p. 67. SONNETS FROM PETRARCH, Sec. Cowper'i TatJct I, p. 69. Alma felice, che sovente torni,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...to its principal cause, to the M ant of discipline in the unirersitie*. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. \}H for a lodge in some vast -wilderness, Some boundless...unsuccessful or 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... | |
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