OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES. in.** »

1765. pathos, which invests the lines with a charm HO nuvly
1507. imparted to mere descriptive verse,

My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey
Where rougher climes a nobler race display—-
Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions trawl,
And force a churlish soil for scanty broad.
No product here the barren hills afford,
But man and steel, the soldier and hin sword ;
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array.
But winter lingering chills the lap of May ;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breawt,
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invent,
Yet still, even here, content can spread a charm,
Eodross the clime, and all its rage disarm.
Though poor the peasant's hut, his feastfl though mun.lt,
He sees his little lot the lot of all;
Sees no contiguous palaee rear its head
To sham© the meanness of his humble shed—-
No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal
To make him loathe his vegetable meal-
But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
Each wish contracting, fits him to tho soil.
Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,
Breasts tho keen air and carols as he goe» »*
With patient angle trolls the finny deep f
Or drives his venturous plough-share to tho «teep ;
Or Hooks tho den where snow-tracks mark tho way,
And drags tho struggling savage into day.
At night returning, every labour aped,
He sits him down the monarch of a ihed j
Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round aurvayi
His children's looks that brighten at the blaze—~

* The sixth edition of the Traveller, published ia 1770, » tttuicrabtadly U» Hani.
"Mansion/' in the third line of the above extract, is the ituuHng of the wwMtr
editions, but "mansions" is obviously better. And In tha twenty-Moond line, tint
improvement by the change from "breathes," whioh 5s the reading of the ftrwt
editions, to "breasts," which, is that of the edition of 1770, is very laiwkecl «4
striking. Nor is it possible to doubt that it is the right word. We find tbo li»»
quoted in the later editions of Johnson's Dictionary tinder *' brcuurtH."t «nim of Iht' book of publishedanectlotes, of his supposed detection of this error;