 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 572 pages
...tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them ! turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...wretchedness: their former opulence only rendered them more impotent.' — Cit. of the World, i. 98. And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them; turn we to survey "Where rougher climes a nobler race display; Where... | |
 | 1863 - 624 pages
...in the walls of some vast edifice of old which saves him half the trouble of constructing a house, 'And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile/ He is but the type of a feeling widely spread, and extending to more educated and more thoughtful... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. FRANCE. TluTmetit. To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn; and France displays... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, 55 The shelter-seeking peiisant builds his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. EXERCISE XVII. Character of the Swiss. — GOLDSMITH. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 pages
...tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 182 pages
...tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 914 pages
...tott'ring in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seek ing peasant builds hie shed; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Wheru rougher climes a nobler race display, Where... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wond'ring ere, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a v smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where... | |
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While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where... 
