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" 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 selections, consisting of the most approved pieces of our best ... - Page 52
by Poetical selections - 1811
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., 3–4. köide

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 lehte
...shed ; And, wondering miiu could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with а в mi le. I + C65 " 3 # - ͎ 7U & niuQ@ U REeħ i + T>leak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish noil for scanty bread ; No product here...
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Rural rides

William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 lehte
...that which diminishes the quantity of u intellectual enjoyment"; and so now he, " Wondering, man can want the larger pile, " Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile." And they really tell -me, that his present house is not much bigger than that of my dear, good old...
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The North American Review, 35. köide

1832 - 614 lehte
...but to him incomprehensible structures, under the ruins of which it is erected. There in the ruins, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant...larger pile, Exults and owns his cottage with a smile. A work, conceived and executed in a tone like that of M. de Chateaubriand's Abencerrages, would have...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 2. köide

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 850 lehte
...Goldsmith viewed Switzerland with the eye of a philosopher. See the Traveller, the lines commencing — " My soul, turn from them : turn we to survey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display." •f Academ. 1. ic 18. Sec the remaining portion of the chapter. The second School of the Academy said...
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A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy: On Didactic Principles ...

Alexander Jamieson - 1835 - 312 lehte
...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 unrefmed people, his thoughts are...
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The Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 lehte
...13 As in those domes where Cassars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking...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...
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The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the ...

Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 lehte
...which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. YoUNG. DESCRIPTION OF THE SWISS. rf MY soul turn from them, 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...
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The Quarterly Review, 56. köide

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 lehte
...beasts for fight, closed again and vanished without help.' But enough of these bloody scenes — ' My soul turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display :' where enormous wealth is expended, not as it was by the son-inlaw of Sylla, but in applying the arts to the...
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The Quarterly Review, 56. köide

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 lehte
...beasts for fight, closed again and vanished without help.' But enough of these bloody scenes — 4 My soul turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display :' where enormous wealth is expended, not as it was by the son-inlaw of Sylla, but in applying the arts to the...
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The Quarterly Review, 55–56. köide

1836 - 1184 lehte
...hundred beasts for fight, closed again and vanished without help.' But enough of these bloody scenes— 1 My soul turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display:' where enormous wealth is expended, not as it was by the son-inlaw of Sylla, but in applying the arts to the...
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