 Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride. Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue,...  Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and ... - Page 225by Robert Burns - 1809 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...solitary parlour of a solitary inn, over a solitary botde of wine ;" exclaiming, with Goldsmith, to his Muse, " Thou source of all my bliss, and all my...That found'st me poor at first, and keeps't me so !" drinking the health of those whom he lov'd, or singing in the sweetest of all strains such tender... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so-j Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of ev'ry virtue, fare tliee well ! Farewell,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decry'd, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride ; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so ; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtuej fare thee well ! Farewel,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...for honest fame : Dear charming nymph, neglected and decry'd, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride ; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so ; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well : John Bewich,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decry'd, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so ; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of ev'ry virtue, fare thee well ; Farewell... | |
 | James Grant Raymond - 1806 - 364 pages
...honest fame : Dear charming nymph ! dejected and decried ; My shame in crowds, ray solitary pride ; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and kcep'st me so ; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel ; • Thou nurse of all the virtues : —... | |
 | Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 pages
...the greatest pleasures attending a poetic genius, that we can give our woes, cares, joys, loves, 8cc. an embodied form in verse ; which, to me, is ever...Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe ; That fouud'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so." What a creature is man! A little alarm last B c P last... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 326 pages
...common men publish common things, which they have perhaps gleaned from frivolous writers." Shenstone. I LIKE to have quotations for every occasion : They...Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe ; " That fouud'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so." What a creature is man ! A little alarm last night,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decry'U, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride, Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That foundst me poor at first, and keep'st me so ; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well ; Farewell,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride ! f old and heathen fame sav true. The man who bade the Theban domes ascend, And kwp'st me so; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Tbou source of ev'rV virtue, fare thee well... | |
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