 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! Unfit, in these degen'rate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for...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,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...lines toward the end of it, addressed to Poetry — ' Dear charming nymph, neglected and decry "d, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride, Thou source of all my hliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first and keep'st me so, Thou guide, by which the nobler... | |
 | 508 pages
...concealed— ' And thou sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch...charming nymph ! neglected and decried ! My shame in crowds—my solitary pride— Thou source of all my bliss !—— " Well, I wish you would no—о—t... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame, To catch...solitary pride. Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, Thatfound'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade : Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch...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,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pages
...— • And thon sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch...— my solitary pride— Thou source of all my bliss ! " " Well, I wish you would no — o — t (yawn) bore me with that - — o — rt (yawn) of bliss... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in those degenerate timed efore determined that we should dispose of him for the woe, That found'st me poor at first, and kecp'st me W Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! Unfit, in these degen'rate times of Shame, To catch the heart, or strike for...guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of ev'ry virtue, fare thee well ; Farewell ! and, oh ! where'er thy voice be tried, On Torno's cliffs... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid. Still first to Hy where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest tarne ¡ Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride. Thou source... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry! thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade : Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch...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,... | |
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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, fare... 
