 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye. To thee were solemn toys or empty show, The robes .of pleasure and the veils of woe": All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye. To thee were solemn toys or empty show, The robes of pleasure and the veils of woe : All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Sach was the scorn that flll'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye, To thee were solemn toys, or empty show, The robes of pleasure, and the veils of woe : All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye, To thee were solemn toys or empty show The robes of pleasure, and the veils of woe : All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...scene with philosophic eye, |To thee were solemn toys or empty show "i . ^ ; The robes of pleasure, and the veils of woe : All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose- griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye. To thee were solemn toys or empty show, The robes of pleasure and the veils of woe : All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Robert Blair. Born 1700. Died 1746. DEATH. FROM... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophick eye. To thee were solemn toys or empty show 65 The robes of pleasure and the veils of woe : All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye. To thee were solemn toys or empty show, The robes of pleasure and the veils of woe : All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye. To thee were solemn toys, or empty show, The robes of pleasure, e heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was Whoso joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind,... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...pierce each scene with philosophic eye. To thee were solemn toys or empty show The robes of pleasure and the veils of woe; All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whoso joys are causeless, or whoso griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that filled the sage's mind,... | |
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The robes of pleasure and the veils of woe: All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain, Whose joys are causeless, or whose griefs are vain. Such was the scorn that... 
