 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 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...joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and own their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 856 pages
...thou shall sanctify unto the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy, ch. xv. v. 19. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of Art, Spontaneous joys, where Na'ure has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their_^r«/-6or« sway. Goldsmith. The Deserted Pillage.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 836 pages
...adopts a stick. Prim-'. Tuo Riddla. SjKiiilaneovs ¡o\s, where nature has it's àÆã, The soul udppti, and owns their first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, I'nenrjr'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. GoldimUh's Dcterted Village; A» the unkindncM of parents was made... | |
 | 1907 - 508 pages
...lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art, etc. 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;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, The simple pleasures of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to rawl. So if your own horses be ready, you may whip off with cousin, and I'll be bound own their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfmed.... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...charm, than ail the gloss of art. 6. By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand. GOLDSMITH. 7. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, - The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway. GOLDSMITH. 8. Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Even in our ashes live our wonted fires.... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...than all the gloss of art. NATURE. 6. By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand. GOLDSMITH. 7. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway. GOLDSMITH. 8. Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Even in our ashes live our wonted fires.... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; 13 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 the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerailr, With all the freaks... | |
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