 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 - Page 17by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1910 - 540 pages
...meanness occupy the mind : 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, 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 298 pages
...meanness occupy the mind: ' 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, 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... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - Authors, Irish - 1910 - 530 pages
...of an Italian scene : As in those domes where Czsars 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. These lines surely embody a recollection of an actual scene that had stimulated his imagination. He... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1912 - 652 pages
...traveller, SBer* 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,...larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. 136. 37acf) 6uma: beruht öießeid)t auf The traveller, ЗЗеге 5, »o aber bie ßampagna gemeint... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1912 - 644 pages
...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 - Algeria - 1912 - 402 pages
...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 - German literature - 1914 - 340 pages
...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... | |
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