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" ... and, with short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some; the sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others ; and, as he beholds, he learns wisdom, and feels the transience... "
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Letters from a citizen of the ... - Page 457
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1825
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others. . . . Here stood their cifr The chief-justice .was rich, quiet, and infamous. On Warren Hustiags. 1841....
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...vigilant, resolute, sagacious adel, but now grown over with weeds ; there their senate-house, bat no» the haunt of every noxious reptile ; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins. — GOLDSMITH : The Bee, tfo. it. (1759.) A City Night Piece. Who knows but that hereafter some...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...great as this, have . . . promised them«elve* immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others. . . . Here stood their citThe chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. Om Warren Hast >. 1841....
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Goldsmith, Volume 2, Part 2

William Black - Authors, Irish - 1909 - 182 pages
...short sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some ; the sorrowful traveller wanders over the...their citadel, now grown over with weeds ; there their senate house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile ; temples and theatres stood here, now only...
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English Prose: Eighteenth century

Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality. Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some : the sorrowful traveller wanders over the...the transience of every sublunary possession. Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds ; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of...
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The Bee and Other Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1914 - 434 pages
...short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality. Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the...the transience of every sublunary possession. Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds ; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of...
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Goldsmith

William Black - 1918 - 182 pages
...short sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some ; the sorrowful traveller wanders over the...their citadel, now grown over with weeds ; there their senate house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile ; temples and theatres stood here, now only...
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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS

JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others. . . . Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house,...reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undist;nguished heap of ruins. — GOLDSMITH: The Bee, No. iv. (1759.) A City Night-Piece. Who knows...
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Yorick's on the Margin

Edwin Howard Clough - American essays - 1923 - 102 pages
...ruins of others. Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples...theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins. So it may happen in what is now San Diego, when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the...
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A Primer of Literary Criticism

Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - Literary style - 1924 - 148 pages
...hadn't been to school yet, But their loves were cold to mine. Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some : the sorrowful traveller wanders over the...feels the transience of every sublunary possession. 39. Passing through Tokenhouse-yard in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over...
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