 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 Mysterious Man: A Novel - Page 210by Frederick Chamier - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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 as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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 as soon as shed, The sunshine... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 their's by fancy fed , Less pleasing •when possest ; The tear forgot as -soon as shed,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...sweeten liberty; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, 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 as soon as shed. The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry; Still as they rim 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 as soon as shed, The... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...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 fea/ful joy. I Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...'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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 262 pages
...adventurers disdain The limit 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." Murmuring labours. — Boys in getting their lessons by heart are apt to repeat them in a kind of murmuring... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 as soon as shed, The... | |
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