| John Bell - 1789 - 396 pages
...satisfy the child ; Each nobler aim represt by long control, _ ■ Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul ; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time and tottering in decay, /6 0 There... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...children satisfy the child ; Each nobler aim represt by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul ; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Oaesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time and tottering in decay, There in... | |
| John Bell - 1793 - 212 pages
...children satisfy the child; JEach nobler aim represt by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time and tottering in decay, Therein the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...children satisfy the child: Each nobler aim, represt by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind; As in those domes, where Cesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, There in the... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 224 pages
...children satisfy the child ; Each nobler aim represt by long controul, Now sinks at last , or feebly mans the soul; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As ift those domes, where Cccsars once bore sway> Defac'd by time and tottering in decay, Amidst... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...children satisfy the child: Each nobler aim, represt by long controul, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights succeeding' fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, There in... | |
| 1803 - 294 pages
...aim, repress'd by long controul, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; PROSPECT OF SOCIETY. 43 While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'ringln decay. There, in... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...children satisfy the child. Each nobler aim, repress'd by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind. As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, There, in... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...children satisfy the child : Each nobler aim, represt by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, There in... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...children satisfy the child ; Each nobler aim, represt by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights succeeding fast behind. In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, were Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time and tott'ring in decay, There in... | |
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