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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... "
A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 27
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 252 pages
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 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 their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread: No product...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, ' Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. obert Chambers Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; 4o product...
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Cyclopędia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Kxults, and owns his cottage with a smile. aven's mother send us grace 1) Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion trpail, And force a churlish soil for scanty breaJ ; STo...
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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ...

English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...shed; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with •>. smile. be, Fur their lost love, their only gain Is but a wreath from thee. And underneath thy Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread : No product...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; No product...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile My sonl, turn from them; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion trv-il, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread No product...
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A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools

William Harvey Wells - English language - 1847 - 228 pages
...Thomson. " This be thy just circumference, 0 world." — Milton. " Thy kingdom come." — Matt. 6 : 10. " My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display." — Goldsmith. PARTICIPLES. Imperfect, Being Perfect, j Synopsis of the verb T o B e . INDICATIVE....
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind: In Two Parts, Part 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1847 - 666 pages
...Thus, after describing the effeminate and debased Roman, the poet proceeds to the Swiss: " My «oul 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 are...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...contrast before him the weak luxuriance of Italy, and the sturdy enjoyment of the rude Swiss home. My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the Weak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread : No product...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Volume 1

John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 744 pages
...contrast before him the weak luxuriance of Italy, and the sturdy enjoyment of the rude Swiss home. 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...
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