 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...author with a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our own. Yes ! lei the rich deride, the proud disdain, The simple pleasures...GOLDSMITH. UPON that night, when fairies light, On Cassilis Dmvnanst dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the... | |
 | Ralph Knight - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 246 pages
...loosed; scold worst of all fighting beat; Lowland Hoofs tripping dodging perhaps sad HALLOWEEN1 Yes/ let the rich deride, the proud disdain, The simple...heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who... | |
 | Joseph McMinn - History - 1992 - 388 pages
...on the simple and natural, far from departing from the classical perspective is a reassertion of it: To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, (1. 253-5) Virgil's rural husbandmen feel a similar affinity... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...introduces the following reflections: Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to...heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art ... The sentiment here is better than the expression. The Poet is probably right in his supposition,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...go round; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. 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... | |
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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. 
