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 - الصفحة 17بواسطة Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 72عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| George Merriam - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...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,...larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter, lingering, chills the lap of May; No zephyr... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...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... | |
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