 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, unmolested...  Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poems - Page 70by Oliver Goldsmith - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...their first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy i Ye friends... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...their first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere (.riders half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, even while fashion's... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...or cure. Still to ourselves in ev'ry place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find. But the'long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks...obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain : And ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy ? 0 Luxury ! thou... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unponfin'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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, uncoufmed. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...their firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, tlnenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling nleasnr»»sickens into pain ; And, e'en/fc(hife ras^h^s brightest arts decoy, The heart/ftistrustine... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...their first born-sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, TInenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array' J, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And,... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined ; But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy? To be able to assign a reason for our pleasures, then, or at least, to have an innate conviction that... | |
 | Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined ; But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere trifters half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain : And e'en while fashion's... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...first-bom sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvicd, unmolested, ипо.пПпгЛ • But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, civil wlTÎïe fashion's brightest ertsr decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this he joy ? Ye friends... | |
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