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 and Letters - Seite 13von Thomas Gray - 1863 - 415 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Dodsley - 1755 - 348 Seiten
...graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain ? 'Die limit:; of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fhatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poffefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 344 Seiten
...bufinefs bent Their murm'rir.g labours ply, 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweetefi liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain. The limits...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofiefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 410 Seiten
...hours, that bring confrraint " To fweeten liberty : VOL. II. X Some Some bold adventurers difdaitr The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Collection - 1766 - 356 Seiten
...earneft bufinefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainfl graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain The limits...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafmg when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1768 - 142 Seiten
...earnefl bufmefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainfl graver hours, that 'bring conftraint To fweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers difdain The limits...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. 3 ' Gay PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. 21 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafinj... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1768 - 140 Seiten
...earneft bufmefs bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainft graver hours, that bring constraint To fweeten liberty : * Some bold adventurers difdain The limits...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch.a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lcfs pleafing when pofleft ; The tear forgot... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 Seiten
...bent, Their munn'ring labours ply 'Gainft graver hours, that bring conftraint To fweeten liberty ; Some Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofleft ; * The tear forgot... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 Seiten
...Some bold adventurers difdain The li«iits of their little reign^ And unknown regions dare deffcry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fiiatch a fearful joy. Gay Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofleft ; The tear forgot... | |
| 1776 - 296 Seiten
...when it happens, as to juftify the. picture which the fweeteft of our elegiac poets has drawn of us; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And lnatch a fearful joy. . It may pollibly be objected, that our men children are too big to be whipt... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1778 - 182 Seiten
...bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : E Still / Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poffeit ; The tear forgot... | |
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