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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. "
The Deserted Village: A Poem - Page 14
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 23 pages
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The Neutral French: Or, The Exiles of Nova Scotia

Catherine Read Williams - Acadia - 1841 - 358 pages
...the next day. Taking then an obscure path that led through the wood, he hurried away. CHAPTER II. " 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 firstborn...
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Marriage

Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 pages
...to the dear group at Glen fern ; for she felt, though she dared not even to herself express it. — To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. She could say nothing of her mother's tenderness, or her sister's affection ; but she...
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Songs and Poems of Robert Burns

Ralph Knight - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 246 pages
...tripping dodging perhaps sad HALLOWEEN1 Yes/ let the rich deride, the proud disdain, The simple pleasures of the lowly train: To me more dear, congenial to my 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...
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The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama

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...
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Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage

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 my 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...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

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...
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