 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
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 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagina’s
...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. The description... | |
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 | Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs - 2002 - 360 pagina’s
...traveller-reader's attention to 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 . . .* The British visitor would not be so heedless, but would take up the imperial banner from his... | |
 | William Cobbett - 2005 - 329 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... | |
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