 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Kxults, and owns his cottage with a smile. ty divine ; Heart-buried in the rubbish of the world : The world, that gulp nice display ; Where the bleak-Swiss thcirstormymansiontread, And ferce a churlish soil for scanty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...his shed ; And, wond'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread: No product... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display; Where the black Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churl^h soil for scanty bread; No product... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...Contraft. Thus, after defcribing the effeminate and debated -Romans, the Poet proceeds to the Swifs : My soul, turn from them — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display. And, after painting fome defects in the manners of this gallant but unrefined people, his thoughts... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 564 pages
...after defcribing the effeminate and debafed Romans, the Poet proceeds to the Swifs : My soul, tuna from them- — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display. And, after painting fome defects in the manners of this gallant but unrefined people, his thoughts... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...slave -, And late the nation founi!, with fruitless skill, Its former strength was but plethoric ill. My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy. mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread :... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul, turn frem them — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread-, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; No... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. 28 My soul, turn from them — turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansioi tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; No... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...shed ; And, wondering man could want the target pile, Exults, and owns hie cottage with a smile. * My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey "Where rougher climes a nobler race display; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And foree a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...his shed ; And, wond'ring man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. My soul turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; \o... | |
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My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier... 
