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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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Der junge Goethe, Volume 6

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,...
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About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, Timgad

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...
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Die leiden des jungen Werthers, Volume 9

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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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning: Ed., with Introduction ...

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...mind: As in those domes, where Csesars once bore sway, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, ¡(a se green stones That, fleeced with moss, under the...trees, Lay round me, scattered like a flock of sheep bleak Swiss their stormy mansioiis tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...mind: As in those domes, where Ciesars once bore sway, Defaced bv time, and tottering in decar, 160 g z 6 ?| z c y ϛ > p ;l| = ߺt aw/ y g bӑ 7 ' ֽ ... _ 1 7 ~ ; ; n .]> p Ƕ ᙋ : O^ G u O uv gn{ turu from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss...
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Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: The Traveller; Gray's Elegy in a Country ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 pages
...the mind. As in those domes where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering in decay, 160 There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking...smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey 165 Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And...
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Johnson & Goldsmith & Their Poetry

William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes where Caesars once EoreTsway, 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 mansion tread, ct£C. And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product...
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English Poems: From the College Entrance Requirements in English

Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...meanness occupy the mind. As in those domes where Caesars once bore sway, ic0Defac'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. 165 My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display; Where the...
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The Art of Thomas Hardy

Lionel Johnson, Joseph Edwin Barton, John Lane - 1923 - 390 pages
...Goldsmith meditates, how ' In those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead,...The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ' ; and Rabelais, in solemn speculation, thinks that ' plusieurs sont aujourd'huy empereurs, rois, dues, princes...
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Gotik und Ruine in der englischen Dichtung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

Reinhard Haferkorn - Architecture, Gothic - 1924 - 230 pages
...meanness occupy the mind. As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and rottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds bis shed, And, wondering man could wish the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile."1)...
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