 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 432 Seiten
...civilly upon the commissioner, then turning to Godfrey, in a low soft voice repeated, " And ev'n when fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ?" Godfrey was touched — she saw it, and sighed. A short time afterwards her marquis left the box.... | |
 | S-l J-n - 1825 - 312 Seiten
...wonders in her favour, may chance to give her speedy freedom." 1 J ! "• '• . .. '- ».) CHAPTER VII. Ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; -i And e'en while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting ' , asks if this be Joy ?... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 418 Seiten
...civilly upon the commissioner, then turning to Godfrey, in a low soft voice repeated, • " And ev'n when fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ?" Godfrey was touched — she saw it, and sighed. A short time afterwards her marquis left the box.... | |
 | 1826 - 300 Seiten
...unconfin'd. But 'the long pomp, the midnight masquerade. With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling...decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis... | |
 | Rosalia St. Clair (pseud.) - 1827 - 782 Seiten
...Housf, and the weary inmates hastened to seek repose. - • . • CHAPTJNFASHIONABLES. CHAPTER XII. Ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And e.en when Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy ? GOLDSMITH. LESBIA... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 Seiten
...refrain from turning round, and saying to one of his party in the words of the poet — " And e'en when Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy." Such was the testimony, which his heart, as yet unrenewed by divine grace, was compelled to give to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 Seiten
...vacant mind, nolested, unconfined. ютр, the midnight masquerade, reaks of wanton wealth array'd, In arta decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 7 Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...unconfin'd: But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks, if this be joy. Ye friends... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...»vealth urray'd. In thescj ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into p .in : s temperate, the sky he joy? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay,... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 444 Seiten
...insipidity, the utter inanity of these vain shows. "The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy'" Does there not then exist in this enlightened community, much talent, information, elegance, taste... | |
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In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. 
