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" 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 - Página 268
editado por - 1755
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Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other Poems

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 páginas
...: 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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The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1854 - 426 páginas
...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...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 páginas
...: 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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A Guide to English Composition, Or One Hundred and Twenty Subjects Analysed ...

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 páginas
...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...
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The pleasures of hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. To which are ...

Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 páginas
...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 Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver ...

William Collins - 1854 - 430 páginas
...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...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 páginas
...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...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 páginas
...: 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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volumen58

1886 - 942 páginas
...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...
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Reading Romantics: Texts and Contexts

Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 páginas
...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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