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..." As in those domes, where Cesars once bore sway, , Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, Amidst the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed :" But here has been a change still more complete than can possibly take place among the dwellings...

...reverse. To think, then, of the Swiss under such circumstances seemed to be almost unavoidable ; " My soul turn from them— turn we to survey, " Where rougher climes a nobler race display, 1t Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansinns trend, '' And force a churlish soil for scanty bread....

...degraded, pleased with low 'delights and the sports of children. The transition to the Swiss is thus made ; My soul turn from them ; — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display. The principle on which the transition is here made, is that of contrast. And since the mind is often...

...Contrast. Thus, after describing the effeminate and debased Romans, the Poet proceeds to the Swiss : " My soul, turn from them — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display." And, after painting some defects in the manners of this gallant but unrefined people, his thoughts...

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