...manners of every country. Having censured the degeneracy of the modern Italians, he proceeds thus : — ' My soul, turn from them ; 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 ; No product here...

...Europe ! Thus, after describing the effeminate and debased Romans, the poet proceeds to the Swiss : — My soul, turn from them — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display. And, after painting some defects in the manners of this gallant but unrefined people, his thoughts...

...pleased with low delights and the sports of children. The transition to the Swiss is thus made : — My soul, turn from them ; — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display. The principle on which the transition is here made, is that of contrast. And since the mind is often...

...Switzerland, and that Goldsmith's arrival in that country from Italy was in the May of that very year : -" turn we to survey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display — Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread : No product here...

...meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes where Csesars once bore sway, Defaced 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...

...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 ; 5 /ts] ' In short, the state resembled one of those bodies bloated with disease, whose bulk is only...

...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,...with a smile. My soul, turn from them ; turn we to surrey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, G 2 Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,...

...meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes where Cresars 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...

...meanness occupy the mind. As in those domes where Ciesars once bore sway, Defaced by time, and tottering 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...

...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...