| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 348 pages
...fpeed, Or uge the flying ball ? While Come on earneft bufinefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain ? 'Die limit:; of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : Still as they run, they look... | |
| Thomas Gray - Cats - 1768 - 140 pages
...fome on earneft bufmefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainft graver hours, that bring constraint 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, Lcfs pleafing when pofleft ; The tear forgot... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1770 - 136 pages
...fpeed, Or urge the flying ball ? While fome on earneft bufinefs bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fn«tch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofieft ; The tear forgot... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 pages
...Some bold adventurers difdain The li«iits 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
...Or urge the flying ball ? While forne on earneft bufinefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gain ft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty...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
...fpeed, Or urge the flying ball. While fome on earineft bufmefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gaiftft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty:...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... | |
| 1782 - 370 pages
...fpeed, Or urge the flying ball ? While fome on earneft bufmefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty...adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, c!MITATION. And bees their honey redolent of fpring. Drydtn's Fable an the Pytlag. Syftm, And unknown... | |
| 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 IM»TATI8H. And bees their hcney redolent of fpring, , Dydin't Fatle a* tbe Pyitag. Syfttn. And unknown... | |
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