Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 20by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 348 pages
...graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain ? 'Die limit:; of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fhatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poffefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 344 pages
...bufinefs bent Their murm'rir.g labours ply, 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweetefi liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain. The limits...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofiefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 410 pages
...hours, that bring confrraint " To fweeten liberty : VOL. II. X Some Some bold adventurers difdaitr The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...fome on earneft bufinefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainfl graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafmg when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| 1776 - 296 pages
...when it happens, as to juftify the. picture which the fweeteft of our elegiac poets has drawn of us; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And lnatch a fearful joy. . It may pollibly be objected, that our men children are too big to be whipt... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...forne on earneft bufinefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gain ft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain...their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : E Still / Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 456 pages
...bufmtfs bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten libertyi Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry i StUl as they run they loolc behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. *... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...fome on earineft bufmefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gaiftft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, SKtECT fOEMS. They hear a voice in every wind, And fhatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy... | |
| English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...fome, on earned bufinefs bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conitraint To fweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers difdain...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Lefs pleading when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 386 pages
...fome on earneft bufmefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftralnt To fweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, C IMĀ»TATI8H. And bees their hcney redolent of fpring, , Dydin't Fatle a* tbe Pyitag. Syfttn. And unknown... | |
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