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" Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed... "
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...: To which is Prefixed an Account ... - Page 46
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 107 pages
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The Sportsman's magazine of life in London and the country, ed ..., Volume 1

Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 pages
...would express him, and we refuse, even on hlo own showing, to " write him down an ass." Tlie lines, " Cheerful, at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goeĞ ; With patient angle trolls the finny deep, Or drives his venturous ploughshare on the steep,...
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The Columbian Magazine, Volumes 5-6

Arts - 1846 - 694 pages
...separated from the lower by the size and magnificence of their dwellings. The peasant " saw no contiguous palace rear its head, to shame the meanness of his humble shed." With time and labor he could fell the trees of the forest, and make himself as good a habitation as...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 12

American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...separated from the lownr by the size and magnificence of their dwellings. The peasant " Saw no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed." With time and labor he could fell the trees of the forest, and make himself as r;ood a habitation as...
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Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, Volume 2

William Howitt - 1847 - 430 pages
...separated from the lower by the size and magnificence of their dwellings. The peasant " Saw no coutignoiu palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed." With time and labour he could fell the trees of the forest, and make himself as good a habitation as...
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Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, Volume 2

William Howitt - 1847 - 430 pages
...separated from the lower by the size and magnificence of their dwellings. The peasant "Saw no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed." With time and lalxmr he could fell the trees of the forest, and make himself as good a habitation as...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Volume 1

John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed. . . Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air and carols as he goes. . . At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed ; Smiles by his cheerful...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Part 2

John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...the peasant's hut, his feast though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed. . . Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short re]Kise, Breathes the keen air and carols as he goes. . ....
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Otium Didascali: translations into Greek & Latin verse

Walter Hobhouse - English literature - 1898 - 178 pages
...the peasant's hut, his feast tho' small, he sees his little lot the lot of all ; sees no contiguous palace rear its head, to shame the meanness of his humble shed ; cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes ; with...
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Gems of Genius in Poetry and Art: From the Kings and Queens of Thought : and ...

Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...the peasant's hut, his feasts but small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his...soil . Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes ; With patient angle trolls the finny deep, Or drives the...
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The Traveller and The Deserted Village: Ed. with Introduction and Notes by ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1899 - 160 pages
...lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; 180 No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make...soil. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes ; With patient angle trolls the finny deep ; Or drives...
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