 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...  Annual Report of the Commissioners ... - Page 1171898Full view - About this book
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...Genius kindle at a poet's name, And young Ambition emulate thy fame. TO MY SISTER, ON HER BIRTH-D AY. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd ; In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. GOLDSMITH'S... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...be thought despicable, in our fathers', which Goldsmith has commended in verse'? Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play', The soul adopts, and owns...the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed', In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain', The toiling pleasure sickens into pain'; And even while fashion's... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...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...midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...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...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, uneonfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...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...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, TJnenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...more dear, congenial to my heart, One native «harm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, uneonfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...reduced to nothing at one part of the table, and rose as suddenly in another. (Fielding's Tom Jones.) But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these , ere trilles half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. (Goldsmith.)... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...charm, than all the gloss of art: Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and own their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfmed. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...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...midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd — In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...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...first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind , UneHvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp , the midnight masquerade , With all the freaks... | |
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