 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
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train; 25 To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, Theso 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 pIny, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 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, unconBned : But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,—... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 930 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to to dwell In adamantine1 chains and penal fire, Who first born sway ; 236 Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfmed. But... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 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...Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1434 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to 2; 255 The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied,... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1929 - 492 pages
...deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train; 285 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, 290 Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - 1997 - 478 pages
...cultural capital. To exemplify once more: Goldsmith's insistent dichotomy between rich and poor, between the "long pomp, the midnight masquerade / With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed" and the "simple blessings of the lowly train" (The Deserted Village, ll. 2.52.-60), proves... | |
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