 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain : And even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolie o'er the vaeant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, uneonfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure siekens into pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts deeoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined : But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere triflcrs half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, e'en while fashion's... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, 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 ; And,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...and owns their first-born Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, 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 , And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arra/d, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain : And... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masauerade, the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed — And there the dead men lay. " I looked to heaven,...them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For joy increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Uuenvied, 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all...obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Ye friends... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...their first born sway ; 236 Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfmed. skies. ODE i/ Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth ! arrayed — 260 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... 
