 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 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... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 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 Ctesars once bore sway", Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, Therein... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 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 C;esars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'riug in decay, There in the... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...satisfy the child ; Each nobler .aim, repress'd by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly taans the soul ; While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Ceesars once bore swny, Defaced by time, and tottering in decay, There in... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...zephyr fondly soothes the mountain's breast, But meteor's glare, and stormy glooms invest. When nobler aims have suffer'd long control, They sink at last, or feebly man the soul s While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 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... | |
 | 1816 - 300 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 Caesar's once bore sway, ^ Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, P There... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 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 Caesars once bore sway, Defac'd by time, and tott'ring in decay, There in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...satisfy the child: Each nobler aim, represt by long controul, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans thc 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... | |
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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, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead... 
