 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...slow Meander's margent green And in the violet-embroider'd vale." And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 40 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...: 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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...: 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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...College. 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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | 1828 - 400 pages
...knocker ! You are not at home, recollect — yet of men in your circumstances, my friend Gray well says, Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.' JUSTICE. — Mysias, the brother of Antigonas, king of Macedon, solicited him... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...; 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. Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, i Lees pleasing, when pnssest The tear forgot... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...: 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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear... | |
 | 1831 - 460 pages
...IN DEBT. A modern man of letters used to say, that a man in debt reminded him of Gray's lines:— " Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy !" TO A POOR FRIEND. Rich in thy friendship though in pocket poor ' The miser's... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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. Gay hope Is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...: 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. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot... | |
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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. 
