 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 - Page 57by Thomas Gray - 1786 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...>; Some bold adventurers disdain The limit 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." Murmuring labours. — Boys in getting their lessons by heart are apt to repeat... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...and in the narrow cage From liberty confined and boundless air." 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
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 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 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. i Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 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 snateh a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 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 snateh a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...j 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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 possess'd; The tear forgot... | |
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