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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... "
History of the English Language and Literature - Page 144
by Robert Chambers - 1837 - 328 pages
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A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volume 2

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 348 pages
...Some bold adventurers difdain ? 'Die limit:; of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : Still as they run, they 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...
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A Collection of Poems ...

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 344 pages
...Some bold adventurers difdain. The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : 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 pofiefs'd ; The tear forgot...
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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, Volume 2

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 410 pages
...Some bold adventurers difdaitr The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : 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 poflefs'd ; The tear forgot...
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Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1768 - 142 pages
...: Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : Still as they run they 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...
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Poems by Mr. Gray

Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...Some Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : 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 pofleft ; * The tear forgot...
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The World, by Adam Fitz-Adam, Volume 1

1776 - 296 pages
...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...
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Poems

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...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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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands: With Notes

1782 - 370 pages
...their honey redolent of fpring. Drydtn's Fable an the Pytlag. Syftm, And unknown regions dare defcry $ Still as they run, they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And (natch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot...
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Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...; Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : 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 pleading when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...: Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay . Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when pofleft; The tear forgot...
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