| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 páginas
...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 here the barren hills afford,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 páginas
...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 ban-en hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword; No vernal blooms their torpid rocks... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 páginas
...censured the degeneracy of the modern Italians, he proceeds thus : — ' My soul, turn from them ; turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the hleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 páginas
...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 here the barren hills afford,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 páginas
...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 here the barren hills afford,... | |
| Johnstone - 1840 - 386 páginas
...Switzerland, and his language seems to soar like the mountains of the land he contemplates : — " Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread." How exquisite the well-known allusion to their climate : — " No vernal blooms their torpid rocks... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 páginas
...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 here the barren hills afford,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 páginas
...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 here the barren hills afford,... | |
| Thomas Brown (of Edinburgh.) - 1843 - 306 páginas
...of the King of Sardinia till we reach Carouge, which is close to the gates of Geneva. CHAPTER VII. -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 scant; bread. — GOLDSMITH. GENEVA, in the year 500,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1843 - 308 páginas
...of the King of Sardinia till we reach Carouge, which is close to the gates of Geneva. CHAPTER VII. -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 — GOLDSMITH. GENEVA, in the year 500, covered... | |
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