And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame : Dear charming nymph, neglected... The life of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 555by sir James Prior - 1837Full view - About this book
| Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...parlour of a solitary inn, over a solitary botde of wine ;" exclaiming, with Goldsmith, to his Muse, " Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keeps't me so !" drinking the health of those whom he lov'd, or singing in the sweetest of all strains such tender... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...And piety, with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degen'rate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,. Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degen'rate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. / And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degen'rate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strive for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...And piety, with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love : And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual...for honest fame : Dear charming nymph, neglected and decry'd, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride ; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! Unfit, in these degen'rate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still firbt to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degen'rate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decry 'd, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride, Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That roundest... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degen'rate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected... | |
| James Grant Raymond - 1806 - 364 pages
...thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly when sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degen'rate days of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame : Dear charming nymph ! dejected and decried ; My shame in crowds, ray solitary pride ; Thou source of all my bliss, and... | |
| Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 240 pages
...catch the heart, or strike for honest fame :. Dear, charming nymph! neglected and decry'd, . . '.» My shame in crowds, my solitary pride ; Thou source of all my bliss and all my wo«,. That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel,... | |
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