 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1834 - 528 pages
...here, from the following lines in the Ode to Eton College, where, speaking of school-boys, he sings : " still as they run, they look behind — They hear a voice in every idrtrf," &c. But we will be merciful. The similitude is merely one of the thousand and nine strange... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 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 possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 338 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 Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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 possest{ The tear forgot... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 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 ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 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. The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health,... | |
 | 1843 - 350 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 possest ; 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. 
