 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...caught; and in the narrow cage From liberty confined and boundless air." 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 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 possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 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 possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...Some bold adventurers disd.-iin 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 252 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 possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 248 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 possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 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 possessed ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...on the same subject, uses somewhat redundant language, Spring, 702: 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... | |
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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 as foon as fhed. The 
