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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Page 270
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 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, The sunshine of the breast.: Theirs buxom health...
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The pleasures of hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. To which are ...

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...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...murmuring 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. 5 Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot...
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Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana

Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - Classicists - 1856 - 382 pages
...can repeat them all. I do envy Gray these lines in his Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; " Still as they run, they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch afea/rfuljoy." " Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed:" we cannot...
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Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is ..., Volume 1

Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 362 pages
...can repeat them all. I do envy Gray these lines in his Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; " 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: " we cannot...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 53

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...line! Thus, agasn¿ I do envy Gray thes. lines in his Ode on a Dictamst Prospect of Etois (Joilqe, Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. How strange is It thatwith all Gray's ears in composition, the word ‘shads'...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 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 ; 4 The tear forgot...
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Englische Dichter: Eine Auswahl englischer Dichtungen mit deutscher Uebersetzung

English poetry - 1856 - 754 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...
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Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. Bowman

Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 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...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...murmuring 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, To sweeten liberty, Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And snatch a fearful...
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