 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress, or a saint, in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; The sports of children satisfy the child. Each nobler aim, repress'd by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul ; While low... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child ; Each nobler .aim, repress'd by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly taans the soul ; While... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...triumph, and the cavalcade: Processions formed for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child: Each nobler aim, represt by long controul, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans thc soul; While low delights,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...triumph and the cavalcade : Processions formed for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child ; Each nobler aim, repressed by long control, Mow sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul , While low... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...triumph and the cavalcade: Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child: Each nobler aim, repress'd by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul: While low delights,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...triumph and the cavalcade : Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child : Each nobler aim, repress'd by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul : While low... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pages
...triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions formed for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every j*rove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child ; Each nobler aim, repressed by Ions control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul ; While low... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child ; Kach nobler aim, repress d by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul ; While low... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...written that couplet, with the ink of the second line still wet, from the description of Italy — " By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child." The sentiment seemed so appropriate to the employment, that the visitor could not refrain from giving... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 520 pages
...would imagine to what little incident he is indebted for that line in the description of the Italians: By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child. The anecdote is recovered by Mr. Prior. Reynolds, or one of his friends, one day visiting Oliver in... | |
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By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child... 
