 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 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. XXII. M " It may possibly be objected, that our menchildren are too... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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