 | John Huddlestone Wynne - 1807 - 744 pagina’s
...passion ;' to banish every unpleasant reflection from my memory; and diffuse tranquillity o'er my mind. ' But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...decoy, • The heart distrusting, asks if this be joy? GOLDSMITH. I felt seriously improved by my evening's ramble, and concluded it by repeating the following... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pagina’s
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, UnenvyM, 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 charms decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Ye friends... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pagina’s
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolick o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, can this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pagina’s
...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 charms decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Ye friends... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pagina’s
...first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the Ion; pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere trifters half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, even while fashion's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pagina’s
...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...the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere trifles half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, ev'n, while fashion's... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pagina’s
...bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere t filters half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, even while fashion's... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pagina’s
...their lust-born .way; tightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvicd, unmolested, nnronfin'd : But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, Jn these, ere trifle™ half their witm obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, ev'u... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagina’s
...Lightly ELEGANT EXTRACTS, Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd : e, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train : To me more dea array 'cl, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain: And,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pagina’s
...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 the freaks of wanton wealth array ' d, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ;... | |
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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... 
