| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 4500 |
| AUTHOR: | William Cowper (1731–1800) |
| QUOTATION: | Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 1
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece, Line 1. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!—Jeremiah ix. 2.
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!—Lord Byron: Childe Harold, canto iv, stanza 177. [back] |
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