 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...the fair. Sweet smiles, and bloom, less transient than her own. NO. 94. RETREAT FROM WICKEDNESS 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. My ear... | |
 | Isaac Fidler - Atlantic States - 1833 - 466 pages
...it would now be difficult for a poet to realize the aspiration of Cowper, at least in Canada : — " O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, might never reach me more." In addition to the numerous settlements and FERTILITY OF CANADA. 355 clearances, which serve as loop-holes... | |
 | Isaac Fidler - Atlantic States - 1833 - 306 pages
...it would now be difficult for a poet to realize the aspiration of Cowper, at least in Canada : — "O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless...unsuccessful or successful war, might never reach me more." In addition to the numerous settlements and clearances, which serve as loop-holes for ^Eolus and Phoebus,... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - English fiction - 1833 - 214 pages
...he drew his hand across his forehead and exclaimed, 'Oh for a lodge in some va«t wildernes•i, A boundless contiguity of shade ! Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful, or successful war Should never reach me more •." 'What! you, Charles, turned admirer of "The soft and piping iime of... | |
 | American literature - 1833 - 428 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cox - American literature - 1833 - 330 pages
...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 auticipative. Providence grant it may be so. But no means should be... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...race." To these sentiments permit me to add another, in the words of Cowper : ' O for a lodge in aome vast wilderness, ' Some boundless contiguity of shade,...unsuccessful, or successful war, ' Might never reach me more !' When I began this letter, it was my intention to pursue those reflections which you started, on... | |
 | Richard Sharp - English literature - 1834 - 290 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
