 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
 | Rosalia St. Clair (pseud.) - 1827 - 782 pages
...Housf, and the weary inmates hastened to seek repose. - • . • CHAPTJNFASHIONABLES. CHAPTER XII. Ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And e.en when Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy ? GOLDSMITH. LESBIA... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 pages
...refrain from turning round, and saying to one of his party in the words of the poet — " And e'en when Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy." Such was the testimony, which his heart, as yet unrenewed by divine grace, was compelled to give to... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...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...obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks, if this be joy. Ye friends... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...first-bom sway; rolic o'er the vacant mind, nolested, unconfined. ютр, the midnight masquerade, reaks arta decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 7 Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...»vealth urray'd. In thescj ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into p .in : s temperate, the sky he joy? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay,... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 444 pages
...insipidity, the utter inanity of these vain shows. "The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy'" Does there not then exist in this enlightened community, much talent, information, elegance, taste... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1834 - 340 pages
...their free-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 ? GOLDSMITH. THE next morning, when Lady Emily prepared to rise, a beautiful bouquet was brought to... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1836 - 298 pages
...owns her firstborn 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. CHAPTER III. " And so, Louisa, you are going to these races," said Charles, lifting his head from a... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1836 - 420 pages
...own their free-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfmed. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...array'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; The heart, distrusting,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1836 - 392 pages
...distinguished and lamented father, SIR JOHN SINCLAIR. 133, GEORQE STREET. MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS. CHAPTER I. And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting, asks if this be joy. GOLDSMITH. THERE never were two ladies more fitted to adorn the fashionable world in Edinburgh than... | |
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