 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.  A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes - Page 268edited by - 1755Full view - About this book
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 344 pages
...graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweetefi liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain. The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...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
...that bring confrraint " To fweeten liberty : VOL. II. X Some Some bold adventurers difdaitr The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...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
...'Gainfl graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty ; Some Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofleft ; * The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 pages
...Some bold adventurers difdain The liĞiits of their little reign^ And unknown regions dare deffcry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fiiatch a fearful joy. Gay Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofleft ; 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
...bold adventurers difdain The limits of 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 joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poffeit ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...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 fed, Lei's pleafing when pofleft; The tear forgot as foon as fhed, The funfhine of the breaft: Theirs buxom... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...'Gainft graver hours, that bring conitraint To fweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...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... | |
 | 1782 - 370 pages
...little reign, c!MITATION. And bees their honey redolent of fpring. Drydtn's Fable an the Pytlag. Syftm, And unknown regions dare defcry $ Still as they run,...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And (natch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
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