 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. C•/^. ,~e. ,/^,». utf^w, £„„. ^ (y,«ni,. e. br FJ-Du When thus creation's charms around combine, Amidst...That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school- taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man; And wiser he,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...; Lakes, forests, cities, plains, extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus creation's charms around combine, Amidst...store, should thankless pride repine ? Say, should the philosophick mind disdain That good, which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school-taught pride... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...influence on the promotion of learning, and the establishment of virtue in the rising generation. " Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man." • The constitution of King's College, to the inexpressible loss of literature, is particularly unfortunate.... | |
 | J. C. - 1806 - 156 pages
...rewarded for all my cares and all my troubles. " Amidst the store, should thankless pride repine f " Say, should the philosophic mind disdain " That good...little man; " And wiser he whose sympathetic mind " Ye glittering towns, with wealth and splendor crown'd ! " Ye fields, where summer spreads profusion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, • The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus Creation's charms around combine, Amidst...should the philosophic mind disdain That good which mates each humbler bosom vain ? Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 pages
...notwithstanding, that we do know, and cannot possibly doubt of our knowing some things with certainty. And, " Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, ** These little things are great to Iktle man*." To be vain of any attainment, is presumption and folly : but to think every thing disputable,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thua Creation's charms around combine, Amidst the store,...mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom Tftin ? Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ;... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. [bine, When thus Creation's charms around cornAmidst the store should thankless pride repine ? Say, should...mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom tain? «. 42.]— ,V«. XIJ1I. Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, * These little things... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...appear. Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus Creation's charms around combine. Amidst the store, should thankless pride repine i Say, should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school-tanght... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each hnmhler hosom vain ? Xet school-tanght pride dissemhle all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic miml Exnlts in all the good of all mankind. ii glittering towns, with wealth and iplendor crown'd ;... | |
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E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And placed on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's... 
