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" 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 17
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pages
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Thomas Hardy: The writer and the poet

Graham Clarke - 1993 - 432 pages
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Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft ..., Volumes 164-165

1994 - 826 pages
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Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage

G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...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. The description...
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Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage

G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
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The Educational Works: Abridgement of Murray's English grammar

Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 pages
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The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs - History - 2002 - 360 pages
...traveller-reader's attention to 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 . . .* The British visitor would not be so heedless, but would take up the imperial banner from his...
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Guide to the Lakes

William Wordsworth - Travel - 2004 - 224 pages
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Select Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - Poetry - 2005 - 144 pages
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Rural Rides, Volume 1

William Cobbett - Travel - 2005 - 329 pages
...that which diminishes the quantity of "intellectual enjoyment"; and so now he, " Wondering man can want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile." And they really tell me that his present house is not much bigger than that of my dear, good old grandmother...
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