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... The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Página 12por Thomas Gray - 1851 - 223 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run...behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fea/ful joy. I Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...some on earnest business bent. Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run...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 as soon as shed, The... | |
| 1809 - 402 páginas
...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 ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearfu) joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posseat;... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...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 ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unkown - ev'ry wind. Ana snatch a fearful joy. •, Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posses*... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...bring constraint To sweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run...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 as soon as shed, The... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 páginas
...adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign. And unknown regions dare descry I Still as they nm they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. lay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed. Less pleasing, when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 páginas
...trod." Ver. 27. The. captive linnet which enthral] This expression has been noticed as tautoiogoui. Thomson, on the same subject, uses somewhat redundant...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 40 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 262 páginas
...constraint To sweeten liberty: j. >; Some bold adventurers disdain The limit of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run...every wind, ' . • „' And snatch a fearful joy." Murmuring labours. — Boys in getting their lessons by heart are apt to repeat them in a kind of murmuring... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...bring constraint To sweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign. And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run...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 as soon as shed, The... | |
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