 | John Huddlestone Wynne - Advice columns - 1807 - 744 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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... 
