 | English essays - 1823 - 440 pages
...when it happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. GRAY. VOL. XX H. M " It may possibly be objected, that our menchildren are too big to be whipt like... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 336 pages
...when it happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ' It may possibly be objected, that our men-children are too big to be whipped like school-boys ; but... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 pages
...when it happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ' It may possibly be objected, that our men-children are too big to be whipped like school-boys ; but... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 424 pages
...when it happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, . And snateh a fearful joy. It may possibly be objected, that our men-children are too big to be whipt like... | |
 | John Campbell (M.A., Oxon.) - 1823 - 90 pages
...that ever and anon they pause, lest the ominous foot-fall be heard approaching: Still as they read they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gray. But to begin from the beginning, as Aristotle says, it is obviously the unlimited credit given... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...snme on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constramt To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain...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 as soon as shed, The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? ! iberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign. And unknown regions dare... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? 30 While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint...To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain 35 The limits of their little reign, The ill-natured criticism of Dr. Johnson on this line cannot be... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...enthrall ? What idle progeny sueeeed To ehase the rolling eirele's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? w's n eonstraint To sweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball f While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring...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 as soon as shed, The... | |
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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. 
