"But while this softer art their bliss supplies, / It gives their follies also room to rise; / For praise too dearly loved or warmly sought / Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; / And the weak soul, within itself unblest, / Leans for all pleasure on another's breast."
The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society
Over 70 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1764, 1765, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1774, 1775, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800) [Published in <u>The Works of the English Poets</u>].<br>
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See <u>The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society. A Poem.</u> (London: Printed for J. Newbery, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1764). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N49108">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Roger Lonsdale's <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u> (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972).