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 - Sida 285redigerad av - 1819Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1800 - 322 sidor
...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 - 1800 - 192 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 1805 - 264 sidor
...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... | |
| 1806 - 330 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 1809 - 308 sidor
...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 - 1809 - 604 sidor
...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 - 1809 - 526 sidor
...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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