 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : * King Henry VI. founder of the College. Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their...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... | |
 | 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 to hear a cause, in which... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...ad'-'fnt'rvus song : My humble verse demands a softer theme j A painted meadow, or a purling stream. Addison. Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry. Gray's Ode to Eton Cal. ADVENTURE BAY, of Van Diemen's land, on the east side of Bruny's isle. It is... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...which entnratt What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed Or urge the flying ball? 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, i Lees pleasing, when pnssest The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, While some on earnest business Bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...which inthral? What idle progeny encceed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? ure date of my history, the life of the historian...occurred in the composition of six or even five quartos; reigu, And unknown regions dare descry : Si ill as they run tlu'-y look behind ; They hoar a voice... | |
 | 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 poor in friendship,—rich... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...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. 
