 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...Careful to see the mantling bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Yes ! let the rich...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, uncoufmed.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...Careful to see the mantling bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Yes ! let the rich...charm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, wnere nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...Careful to see the mantling bliss go round; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Yes! let the rich...joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These...joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, tlnenvied, unmolested, unconfined.... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 pages
...fraught with an exquisite sensibility of heart, on the enjoyment of natural pleasures, he exclaims, Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These...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, unconfined... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Careful to see the mantling bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss g l 2:/ owns their first-born sway : Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...Careful to see the mantling bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Yes ! let the rich...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, unconfined.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...the mantling bliss go round. Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, ' These simple pleasures of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to...joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-horn sway j. Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...Careful to see the mantling bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Yes ! let the rich...joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway 5 Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd.... | |
 | 1830 - 368 pages
...Amidst the swains to shew my book-learn'd skill. Yes, let the rich deride, with proud disdain, The simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear,...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, unconfin'd."... | |
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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... 
