 Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead,...  Poetical Works - Sida 17efter Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 sidor
...meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Crcsars once bore sway Defaced by time and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead,...shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, ', \nli :-, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them; turn we to survey Where rougher... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 sidor
...meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes where Caesars once bore sway Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead,...Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread: No product here... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 sidor
...meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed; And, wond'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn... | |
 | George Henry Wathen - 1843 - 322 sidor
...halls of the Pharaohs, t=J and vile mud huts contrast with the " cunning work" of gigantic capitals. " There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wond'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile." GOLDSMITH. The... | |
 | Thomas Brown (of Edinburgh.) - 1843 - 306 sidor
...of the King of Sardinia till we reach Carouge, which is close to the gates of Geneva. CHAPTER VII. -Turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scant; bread. — GOLDSMITH.... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1843 - 308 sidor
...of the King of Sardinia till we reach Carouge, which is close to the gates of Geneva. CHAPTER VII. -Turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread — GOLDSMITH. GENEVA,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sidor
...meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Cœsars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering rt Chambers bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; 4o product here... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 sidor
...the mind: As in those domes where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering in decay, 160 There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed, And, woncl'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 sidor
...the mind: As in those domes where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering in decay, 160 There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed, And, wond'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 650 sidor
...as to his successor in Goldsmith's poem ; his was the same cheerful acceptance of poverty which, ' wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile ' ; the same childish delight in shows which had developed the ritual of the Church — ' The pasteboard... | |
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