| Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 lehte
...after defcribing the effeminate and debafed Romans, the Poet proceeds to the Swifs : My soul, tuna from them- — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display. And, after painting fome defects in the manners of this gallant but unrefined people, his thoughts... | |
| 1814 - 310 lehte
...As in those domes, where Ceesars once bore swny, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking...Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn frem them — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 lehte
...mind : As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time and tottering in decay, Amidst 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. Yet still, e'en... | |
| 1816 - 300 lehte
...Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, P There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wondering man could...larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. 28 My soul, turn from them — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 lehte
...There in the ruin, heedlefs of the dead, The fhelter.feeking peafant builds his fhed ; And, wond'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a 1'mile. SECTION VI. The Traveller continued. My foul, turn from them—turn we to furvey Where rougheft... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 lehte
...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, 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 from... | |
| 1819 - 490 lehte
...ev'u nature warm ; The pregnant quarry tuem'd with humau form."— And also the time when, " Amidst the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed." This panorama is not only perfect in the delineation of the view of the most beautiful part of the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 lehte
...mind ; A* in those domed where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'ring id decay, Amidst the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking...builds his shed ; And, wondering man could want the target pile, Exults, and owns hie cottage with a smile. * My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 lehte
...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, 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 from... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 lehte
...As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking...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... | |
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