 | Caleb Cushing - Spain - 1833 - 326 pages
...flesh May violets spring ! SHAKSPEARB. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed, The tear forgot as soon as shed The sunshine of the...Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue ; Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigor born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the... | |
 | Giuseppe Pecchio - England - 1833 - 554 pages
...Children — Their Food — Temperament of the English — "Affairs of Honour" — Female Authors. " Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest, The tear forgot as soon as shed, 1 he sunshine of the breast ; Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And'lively... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...life. Some will have it that the School-boy's life is the happiest season of existence. Thus Gray: Gay Hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when...forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast ! And Southey, speaking of his early years, and the place where he was educated, exclaims : CORSTON,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1836 - 632 pages
...It is certain that my father's family were established in Hampshire. CHAPTER II. SCHOOLBOY DAYS. " The tear forgot as soon as shed ; The sunshine of the breast." So says — or rather sings — the celebrated GRAY. It may be however a questionable dictum, whether... | |
 | Dorus Clarke - Sermons, English - 1836 - 228 pages
...gayety and unconcern of early youth. " Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...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,...Theirs buxom 'health, of rosy hue ; Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...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,...Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue ; Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 pages
...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,...Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...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,...Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 pages
...youth, To breathe a second spring.' You may remember, too, that — ' Gay hope was theirs, by fancy fed, The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.' " " All that is true," said Willoughby ; " and you have selected half-a-dozen lines of happiness out... | |
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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. 
