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 - الصفحة 39بواسطة Thomas Gray - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 207عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labors 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,... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? While some on earnest business bent Their rnurm'ring laoours piy '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;... | |
| Class-book - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest bus'ness bent, Their murmuring labours p]y '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'd... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint • To...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... | |
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labors 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 posseat... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...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 possessed... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their...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;... | |
| 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...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 their's — by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest;... | |
| 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 942
...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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