 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
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...their first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. eal'd, and triSers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, even while fashion's... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1824 - 292 pages
...with more heartfelt satisfaction than is found among the courtly pomp of a ceremonious party ; " Where e'en while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting asks, if this be joy .?" Such) forty years since, were most of the agriculturists, who tenanted the lands of others in the... | |
 | Relapse - 1824 - 230 pages
...your temptations will not arise from your own inclination, for your taste is not for " The long-drawn pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd ; " but I dread lest you should not have sufficient courage to resist the continued E 2 importunity... | |
 | 1825 - 292 pages
...without working any great wonders in her favour, may chance to give her speedy freedom." \ CHAPTER VII. Ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure...decoy, The heart distrusting, asks if this be Joy :' Goldsmith. VAUGHAN spent a month inLondon agreeably enough. He was hurried by his gay cousin from... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...their first-born sway : Lightly they frolie o'er the vaeant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, uneonfin'd. in'd, and pester'd in this pin-fold here, Strive to...erown that virtue gives After this mortal ehange to siekens into pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts deeoy, The heart distrusting asks if this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...first-horn sway j. Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd : / }3ut 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... | |
 | sir Thomas Dick Lauder (7th bart.) - 1825 - 928 pages
...was always an evident inclination on the part of the young Lady to escape from her. CHAPTER IV. Bat the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, In these, ere triflcrs half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain, And,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 418 pages
...civilly upon the commissioner, then turning to Godfrey, in a low soft voice repeated, • " And ev'n when fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ?" Godfrey was touched — she saw it, and sighed. A short time afterwards her marquis left the box.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 432 pages
...civilly upon the commissioner, then turning to Godfrey, in a low soft voice repeated, " And ev'n when fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ?" Godfrey was touched — she saw it, and sighed. A short time afterwards her marquis left the box.... | |
 | S-l J-n - 1825 - 312 pages
...wonders in her favour, may chance to give her speedy freedom." 1 J ! "• '• . .. '- ».) CHAPTER VII. Ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; -i And e'en while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting ' , asks if this be Joy ?... | |
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