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. The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Pàgina 39per Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pàgines
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten...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'... | |
| 1843 - 350 pàgines
...speed., Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball Î While gome on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply to form one of the most solemn, the most romantic,...hand, the cascades that in many places throw themse every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball I While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply confusions in which theological controversy lad involved...active, the most enterprising, the east scrupulous, every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed... | |
| Charles Rowcroft - 1844 - 894 pàgines
...back to breakfast. CHAPTER IV. " While some on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten...as they run, they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy." GHAT. IT was not for several days after Frank's arrival, that... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 324 pàgines
...Sixth, founder of ttw CoVwp, While some on earnest business beat Their murm'ring labours piy 'Gam-it graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty...adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, Aml unknown regions dare descry t Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind,... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 328 pàgines
...Thejr murui'rtng lahours piy 'Gainst graver houra, that hring constrains To sweeten liherty : Some hold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they ren they look hehind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...speed, Or urge the flying ball? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten...as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.1 Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pàgines
...with pain from that advent'rous flight, Now jeek repose upon an humbler theme. C'oitper'i Task, bi Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry. Gray's Ode to Eton Col. ADVENTURE, Bill of, in Commerce, a writing signed by a merchant to testify... | |
| University magazine - 1845 - 772 pàgines
...While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours, that brmg constraint, To sweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little rei^n, And unknown regions dare descry : Still, as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in... | |
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