 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, The soul adopts, and owns their...  Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784 - Page 285edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1834 - 340 pages
...glance leave on the mind to be reflected and commented upon ! CHAPTER II. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their free-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the... | |
 | William Bilton - 1834 - 332 pages
...nevertheless, beguiled the hours and amused 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 gway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unci i vied, unmolested, unconfined ! " But, besides... | |
 | Leonard] [Withington - 1836 - 256 pages
...should those manners be thought despicable, in our fathers, which Goldsmith has commended in verse ? Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed,... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1836 - 298 pages
...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...where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns her firstborn sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1836 - 420 pages
...glance leave on the mind to be reflected and commented upon ! CHAPTER XIX. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and own their free-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfmed.... | |
 | John McIntosh - 1836 - 170 pages
...train, Which the rich deride unit the proud disdain, ; ^ To tficm more dear, congenial to their hearts One native charm, than all the gloss of art : (Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, ,{,ho soul adopts and o,.vris th«ir first born sway; Lightly they frolic o,er the vacant mind, •... | |
 | Leonard Withington - 1836 - 260 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...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...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But th« long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my coal-mines in Cornwall, I reverence own their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconlined.... | |
 | 1838 - 806 pages
...my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys where nature nas its piny, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ;...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.' He sought for effect, particularly in his poetic pieces, and in his fiction, from painting... | |
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