 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...Tin.; vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that fiâmes with gold ? Id. To me more dear, congenial to my heart One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith. Thy boastful mirth let jealous rivals spill, Insult thy crest, and glossy pinions sear.... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...round; Nor the coy maid, bait' willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Yes 1 let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple...my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of artSpontaneous joys, where Nature has its play/ The soul adopts, and own» their first-born sway ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...blessings of the lowly train ; To mi; more dvïar, congenial to my heurt, One nativo (harm, than ull t9 y X A) IH b| E $ , f %O ! Z 1% J ' \|Q@ < ośN<8 ' U 橓 V away; Lightly thay frolic o'er Hie vacant mind. Unen vied, unmolested, unconfln'd. But the long pomp,... | |
 | 1830 - 372 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, congenial to ray heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play.... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...speaks of Leader haughs and Tweedside — ' Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These humble blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial...heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.' " I recollect the friendships of youth with reverence. They are the embraces of the heart of man ere... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...th« more unenlightened in our own. Yes ! let the rich dtride, the proud disdain, The simple pleasures of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to...heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. GOLDSMITH. I. UPON that night, when fairies light, On Caisilu Doicnara^ dance, Or owre the lays, in... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...moie unenlightened in our own.] Ves .' let the rick deride, the proud disdain, The limpie pleasttret of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than ail the gloss oj'art. Goldsmith. I. UPON that night, when fairies light, On Cassilis Dotvnan3$ dance,... | |
 | 1833 - 536 pages
...natural beauties of the surrounding scenery, should say with the poet, before he commences his sketch, " To me more dear, congenial to my heart One native charm, than nil the gloss of nrt." Were comfort my aira, in composing a fit dwelling for .my friend, in the very... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1834 - 340 pages
...depart; but how much may a mere glance leave on the mind to be reflected and commented upon ! CHAPTER II. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native...nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their free-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the... | |
 | William Bilton - Connacht (Ireland) - 1834 - 340 pages
...nevertheless, beguiled the hours and amused the minds of a Walton, a Paley, a Davy, a Wollaston. " Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul...first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined ! " But, besides these direct enjoyments of the Gentle Art, it has,... | |
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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... 
