 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
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1912 - 644 pagina’s
...traveller, SSeré 159 ff.: As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead,...shed; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Kxults, and owns his cottage with a smile. 136. 92ad) Suma: beruht »íetteídjt auf The traveller,... | |
 | Charles Thomas-Stanford - 1912 - 402 pagina’s
...Roman tradition. "As in those realms where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering to decay, There in the ruin heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed." GOLDSMITH. EAST and west of Batna lay the Roman frontier line during the first two centuries of the... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1914 - 340 pagina’s
...of Goldsmith's work: 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,...larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Cheerful... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pagina’s
...mind: As in those domes, where Csesars once bore sway, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, ¡(a se green stones That, fleeced with moss, under the...trees, Lay round me, scattered like a flock of sheep bleak Swiss their stormy mansioiis tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 pagina’s
...mind: As in those domes, where Ciesars once bore sway, Defaced bv time, and tottering in decar, 160 g z 6 ?| z c y ϛ > p ;l| = ߺt aw/ y g bӑ 7 ' ֽ ... _ 1 7 ~ ; ; n .]> p Ƕ ᙋ : O^ G u O uv gn{ turu from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pagina’s
...meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes where Caesars once EoreTsway, 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, ct£C. And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 pagina’s
...meanness occupy the mind. As in those domes where Caesars once bore sway, ic0Defac'd by time and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead,...larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. 165 My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display; Where the... | |
 | Lionel Johnson, Joseph Edwin Barton, John Lane - 1923 - 390 pagina’s
...Goldsmith meditates, how ' 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 peasant builds his shed ' ; and Rabelais, in solemn speculation, thinks that ' plusieurs sont aujourd'huy empereurs, rois, dues, princes... | |
 | Reinhard Haferkorn - 1924 - 230 pagina’s
...meanness occupy the mind. As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and rottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds bis shed, And, wondering man could wish the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile."1)... | |
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