 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 σελίδες
...happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. GRAY. VoL. XXII. M " It may possibly be objected, that our menchildren are too big to be whipt like... | |
 | John Campbell (M.A., Oxon.) - 1823 - 90 σελίδες
...that ever and anon they pause, lest the ominous foot-fall be heard approaching: Still as they read they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gray. But to begin from the beginning, as Aristotle says, it is obviously the unlimited credit given... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 424 σελίδες
...happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, . And snateh a fearful joy. It may possibly be objected, that our men-children are too big to be whipt like... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 σελίδες
...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...forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : 'rs buxom health of rosy hue, wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour bnrn ; The thoughtless... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1824 - 294 σελίδες
...acquaintance with the insufficiency of earthly pleasures, are not to be encountered. " Theirs are the joys by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest, The tear...forgot, as soon as shed, The sun-shine of the breast." This truth was well understood by Madam L , and practised with that ardour which the love of benevolence... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign. And unknown regions dare descry; Still as by William C. Hall match a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | 1829 - 600 σελίδες
...hope. Of children, Gray says,— Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed The sunshine of the breast. There is a captivation in the smile of infant innocence, in its smooth and benign features, and in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 σελίδες
...look behind, They hear a voiee in every wind, And snateh a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by faney oven two, as writen folk beforne ; Ne never, sithen...thousand part Contrefete the sophimes of his art ; ever new, And lively eheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 σελίδες
...Meander's margent green And in the violet-embroider'd vale." And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 40 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 σελίδες
...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...Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health, of rosy... | |
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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 joy. 
