 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.  A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes - Page 268edited by - 1755Full view - About this book
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 386 pages
...hcney redolent of fpring, , Dydin't Fatle a* tbe Pyitag. Syfttn. And unknown regions dare defcry 3 Still as they run, they look (behind. They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftfaint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay . Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofleft; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little feign, And unknown regions dare defcry : Still as they run...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofleft ; The tear forgot... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...look behind. They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. ^ *. And bees their honey redolent of fpring. DRYDEN'S TABLE on the PYTHAO. SYSTIW.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...'Gainft graver hours that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry....as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in cv'ry wind, And (natch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, I.efs pleafmg \vhenpoffeft;... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...'Gainft graver hours that bring conftraint To fvveeten liberty: Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ey'ry wind , And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafmg when poflefl'd;... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers difdain 35 The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry:...hear a voice in every wind, And fhatch a fearful joy. 4.0 (Jay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poffeft ; The tear forgot as fcon as fbed,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry: Still a» they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, I.efs pleafing, when poiTeft ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...VBome bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare'defcry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And inatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Lei's plcafing when poffeft... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...Some bold adventurers difdain 3j The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions daredefcry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. 4p Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofteft... | |
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