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" 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... "
The task, a poem, illustr. by B. Foster - Page 37
by William Cowper - 1855
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...with. — Sum of the whole matter. — Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity. — Their folly and extravagance. — The mischiefs of profusion....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...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...with. — Sum of the whole matter. — Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity. — Their folly and extravagance.- — The mischiefs of profusion....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...
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Poems of Established Reputation: To Wit: 1st. The Art of Preserving Health

Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...expostulated with Sum of the whole matter. — Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity. — Their folly and extravagance. — The mischiefs of profusion....cause, to the want of discipline in the universities*. BOOK II, THE TIME-PIECE. \_./H for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless continuity of shade,...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...mismanagement on the laity —Their folly ami extravagance. — 77ie mischiefs of profusion. — Profit^ iion itself, with all its consequent evils, ascribed, as...cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. THE TASK. BOOK II. • THE TIME-PIECE. OH for a lodge in fomc vaft wildernefs, Some boundlefs contiguity...
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Picturesque excursions in Devonshire and Cornwall, Part 1

Thomas H. Williams - Cornwall (England : County) - 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 a desert, and an uninterrupted...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1805 - 366 pages
...expostulated with. — Sum of the whole matter. — Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity — Their folly and extravagance. — The mischiefs of profusion....its principal cause, to the want of discipline in tht universities. THE TASK, BOOK H. THE TIME-PIECE. OH for a lodge in fome vaft wildemefs, Some boundlefs...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1805 - 376 pages
...expostulated with. — Sum of the whole matter.— Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity — Their folly and extravagance. — The mischiefs of profusion....— Profusion itself, with all its consequent evils, csiriiea, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in tht universities. THE TASK. BOOK...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...profusion. — Profusion itsc.lf, with all its consequent evils,' ascribed, as to its prmcipal emise, to 'the want of discipline in the universities. •...vast wilderness. Some boundless contiguity of shade, \Yhere rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more....
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A Portraiture of Quakerism,: Taken from a View of the Moral ..., Volume 3

Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 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...
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Poems, Volume 28

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,...
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