 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...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. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest;... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...: 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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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. Gay hope is their's — by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest;... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...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 jay. ' Gay hope is their's by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...: 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. Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd;... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...shamefaced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom, and fills one full of obstacles. — Shakspeare. Still as they run they* look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And catch a fearful glance. — Gray. When the mind proposes honourable ends, not only... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...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, Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...Some bold adventurers disdain 35 The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry; at all which we behold Is full of blessings. Therefore l every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. *) Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest;... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - Europe - 1928 - 454 pages
...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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possesst;... | |
 | American essays - 1886 - 942 pages
...as he lives, goes back like a flash to the unlawful delight of a schoolboy's stolen freedom : — " Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy." And who that has ever watched a party of children, listening... | |
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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... 
