 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
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 jay. ' Gay hope is their's by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgof... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 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 every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd; The tear forgot... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...shamefaced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom, and fills one full of obstacles. — Shakspeare. Still as they run they* look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And catch a fearful glance. — Gray. When the mind proposes honourable ends, not only the yirtues, but... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. less pleasing when possess'd; The tear forgot as soon as shed, Gay hope is theirs... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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, Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, i And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 5 Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 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. 5 Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot... | |
 | American essays - 1886 - 942 pages
...as he lives, goes back like a flash to the unlawful delight of a schoolboy's stolen freedom : — " Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy." And who that has ever watched a party of children, listening with bright eyes... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...absorbed in their activities; Gray's are haunted by the disillusionment the speaker sees awaiting them: "Still as they run they look behind, / They hear a voice in every wind, / And snatch a fearful joy." Melancholically looking behind him from the vantage of the suffering that the... | |
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