 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...own their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfmed. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...into pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts deco}. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 't Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...of art. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway 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... | |
 | Daniel Pierce Thompson - 1847 - 244 pages
...particular wish he had to mingle in fashionable society. For, believing with bis favorite poet, that " e'en while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy," he felt conscious that he should have little relish for its friv* olities and amusements. No, it was... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. 15. And even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy ? GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 16. Beppo ! that beard of thine becomes thee not ; It should be shaved... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. 15. And even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy ? GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 16. Beppo ! that beard of thine becomes thee not ; It should be shaved... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerailr, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arraj'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The...into pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts deooy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye frieads to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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 arrayed, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain , And... | |
 | 1907 - 504 pages
...pomji, the midnight masquerade With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, — In these, ere triflere half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens...arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy — möchte ich in Zusammenhang bringen Str. 1 7 von C. Sät. Night, wie auch Vers 3 und 4 von My Chloris,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, 30 Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. 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 ; 35... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...o'er the vaeant mind, Unenvy'd, nnmolested, nneonfln'd. Bnt the long pomp, the midnight masqnerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasnre siekens into pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts deeoy, The heart distrnsting... | |
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