 Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their...  Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784 - Page 285edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art;...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, UnenvyM, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvicd, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pompj the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconftn'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and own their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolick o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, UnenvyM, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art...first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the Ion; pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...nature has its play, uie "ill adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; O 4 Lightly ELEGANT EXTRACTS, o rule, Tie village master taught array 'cl, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain: And,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere t filters half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, even while fashion's... | |
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