 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 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. 165 My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display;... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking j>easant builds his shed, And, wond'ring 1; smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey 165 Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pages
...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. (lines 161-64) The echoing vowels in line 162 forebode no good: we do not smile at the smiling... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pages
...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 of the people of Italy is not less just than that of their country is picturesque... | |
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While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where... 
