 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 - Pagina 17door Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1908 - 468 pagina’s
...that which diminishes the quantity of " 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 grandmother,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 126 pagina’s
...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...smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey 165 Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 92 pagina’s
...Amidst the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed, 160 And, wond'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his...Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; D No No product... | |
 | 1910 - 542 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1910 - 106 pagina’s
...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...smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey 165 Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And... | |
 | 1910 - 524 pagina’s
...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...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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