 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.  Poems by Mr. Gray - Страница 20по Thomas Gray - 1768 - 119 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 страници
...: 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... | |
 | 1831 - 460 страници
...IN DEBT. A modern man of letters used to say, that a man in debt reminded him of Gray's lines:— " Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy !" TO A POOR FRIEND. Rich in thy friendship though in pocket poor ' The miser's... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 страници
...: 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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1834 - 528 страници
...here, from the following lines in the Ode to Eton College, where, speaking of school-boys, he sings : " still as they run, they look behind — They hear a voice in every idrtrf," &c. But we will be merciful. The similitude is merely one of the thousand and nine strange... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 страници
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 страници
...; 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 страници
...; 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... | |
 | 1838 - 332 страници
...: 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 ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
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