...may long continue to practise them. " let the rich deride, 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." Before concluding, it may not be irrelevant to observe, that Christmas is still kept as a festival...

...go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These...frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, uuconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,...

...robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These...firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, tlnenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks...

...bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be presl, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native...Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first born-sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, TInenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd. But...

...more unenlightened in our own.] Yes ! let the rich deride, 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. GsUmith. * Killie is a phrase the country-folks sometimes use for Kitmarnock. I. Uroir that night,...

...more unenlightened in our own.] Yes ! let the rich deride, 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. UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans * dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid...

...painful reflections in the sound sleep, which is procured by extreme fatigue. CHAPTER XI. To me more dew, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all...gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys, where nature has in play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway. GOLDSMITH. WHEN Bertha arose the next morning,...

...nothing more than ale in the cottages of the peasantry. The simple pleasures (if the lowly train j To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art." -"let the rich deride, the proud disdain, Before concluding, it may not be irrelevant to observe, that...

...VII. HIGHLAND FESTIVE AMUSEMENTS. Yes, let the rich deride, 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. HALLOWE'EN. Ye powers of darkness and of hell, Propitious to the magic spell, Who rule in...

...bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. Unenvy'd, unmolested, unconfin'd. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of...