 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...These simple pleasures 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 first-horn sway j. Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...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 first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...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 first-born sway 5 Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | 1830 - 368 pages
...The 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 first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | James Lackington - 1827 - 368 pages
...The 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 first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...soul adopts, and own» their 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 wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, ev'n while... | |
 | James Lackington - 1830 - 376 pages
...my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway :...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 - 1830 - 472 pages
...my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play. The soul adopts, and owns their 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,... | |
 | 1830 - 372 pages
...The simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to ray heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play. The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | William Bilton - 1834 - 340 pages
...the minds of a Walton, a Paley, a Davy, a Wollaston. " Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly...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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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, 255 The soul adopts, and owns their... 
