 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 - Stran 17avtor: Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1814 - 310 strani
...meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Ceesars once bore swny, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead,...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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 strani
...meanness occupy the mind: 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 strani
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 490 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...meanness occupy the mind : 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 strani
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 strani
...meanness occupy the mind : 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,...Where 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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