 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...his shed; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend. I was not born for courts, or grea Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 Dleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Kxulte, 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 mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; No product... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 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 bleak Swiss theirstormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; No product... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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 atormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; No... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...shed ; And, wondering miiu could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with а в mi le. My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the T>leak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish noil for scanty bread ; No... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. n, there is no such thing to be seen as a plain woman ; so one must dress a little par Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread No product... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. CHARACTER OF THE SWISS. Mr 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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 850 pages
...Goldsmith viewed Switzerland with the eye of a philosopher. See the Traveller, the lines commencing — " My soul, turn from them : turn we to survey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display." •f Academ. 1. ic 18. Sec the remaining portion of the chapter. The second School of the Academy said... | |
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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... 
