 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
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, eongenial to my heart, One native eharm, than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where...adopts, and owns their first-born sway : Lightly they frolie o'er the vaeant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, uneonfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade,... | |
 | sir Thomas Dick Lauder (7th bart.) - 1825 - 928 pages
...was always an evident inclination on the part of the young Lady to escape from her. CHAPTER IV. Bat the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, In these, ere triflcrs half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain, And,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 368 pages
...deride, with proud disdain, The simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, . One native charm, than all the gloss of...the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd." GOLDSMITH. Accordingly in July last,^ 1791, we set out from Merton, which I now make my chief residence,... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 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...play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway 5 Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But 'the long pomp, the... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1827 - 368 pages
...deride, with proud disdain, The simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd." GOLDSMITH. Accordingly in July last, 1791, we set out from Merton, which I now make my chief residence,... | |
 | 1830 - 372 pages
...deride, with proud disdain, The simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to ray heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd." GOLDSMITH. Accordingly in July last, 1791, we set out from Merton, which I now make my chief residence,... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1830 - 376 pages
...deride, with proud disdain, The simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfm'd." • GOLDSMITH. Accordingly in July last, 1791, we set out from Merton, which I now make... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1830 - 472 pages
...deride, with proud disdain, The 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, Uuenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd." GOLDSMITH. Accordingly in July last, 1791, we set out from Rlerton,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...blessings of the lowly train ; To mi; more dvïar, congenial to my heurt, One nativo (harm, than ull t9 y X A) IH b| E $ , f %O ! Z 1% J ' \|Q@ < ośN<8 ' U 橓 V away; Lightly thay frolic o'er Hie vacant mind. Unen vied, unmolested, unconfln'd. But the long pomp,... | |
 | William Bilton - Connacht (Ireland) - 1834 - 340 pages
...nevertheless, beguiled the hours and amused the minds of a Walton, a Paley, a Davy, a Wollaston. " Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined ! " But, besides these direct enjoyments of the Gentle Art, it has, as 'I have remarked,... | |
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