| William Cox - 1833 - 256 страница
...to have " fallen on evil days," and then will they exclaim, in the agony of their outraged quiet, " Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness! Some boundless contiguity of shade !" But, perhaps, I am mournfully anticipative. Providence grant it may be so. But no means should be... | |
| 1833 - 618 страница
...upon the house-top; and the company with whom he is obliged to associate will often extort the wish, " Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade." Our cargo was chiefly salt, and the pumps were kept going night and day, while the troubled sea was... | |
| 1833 - 428 страница
...would bury ourselves ; — in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguily of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach us more — But we feel ourselves not only sadder, but better, men ; in gazing upon a lovely landscape,... | |
| 1855 - 1216 страница
...shore, I returned to the boat, having less sympathy than ever with the longing of Cowper : — " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade.'' And yet as I stood upon the deck of the steamer, on the following morning, looking back on that scene... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1963 - 136 страница
...record. Chairman RUSSELL. Very well. (The resolution referred to is as follows:) 3. MILITARY AFFAIRS "Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more." — William Cowper. UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING We believe that universal military training would further... | |
| Ernest W. Nicholson - 1973 - 246 страница
...him in eighteenth-century England, paraphrased in his poem 'The Time-Piece' (Book Two of The Task): Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...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. 2.... | |
| 1898 - 798 страница
...Angleterre, de 1818 à 1848. Géographie. 1. La Baltique. 3. Madagascar. 2. La Provence. Version anglaise. Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless...or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My car is pained, My soûl is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with \vhich earth is filled,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 816 страница
...Pitiful automatons — despicable Yahoos — yea, they are altogether an unsufferable thing. " O ! for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade, where" the scowl of the purse-proud Nabob, the sneer and strut of the coxcomb, the bray of the ninny and the... | |
| Henry Hudson Holly - 1863 - 432 страница
...summer. The philosophers of Cambridge and the sportsmen of Gotham have not only, like Cowper, longed " for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade," but have made a prophecy of their desires and set up their rude household gods in the bosom of the... | |
| Mary Breckinridge - 1981 - 404 страница
...had spent a summer's day in the saddle. Whenever I rode up to it myself, I thought of Cowper's lines: Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade . . . It seems to me, in looking back over my first few years in the mountains, that I was always riding... | |
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