 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply. 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reigu, And unknown regions dare descry : Si ill as they run tlu'-y look behind ; They hoar a voice... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 330 pages
...ELECTION-CHAMBER REFLECTIONS ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. GRAY. WE have now placed our young scholar," pauper scholaris," on that ancient foundation which has... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Anglican Communion - 1830 - 332 pages
...ELECTION-CHAMBER REFLECTIONS ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. GRAY. WE have now placed our young scholar, " pauper scholaris" on that ancient foundation which has... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...life. Some will have it that the school-barfs 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,... | |
 | 1831 - 460 pages
...IN DEBT. A modern man of letters used to say, that a man in debt reminded him of Gray's lines:— " Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy !" TO A POOR FRIEND. Rich in thy friendship though in pocket poor ' The miser's poor in friendship,—rich... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English fiction - 1831 - 400 pages
...down the hill towards the parsonage, reminding me of those pretty lines, so applicable to youth, " The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast." I then joined the doctor, who thought it right to account to me for his having spoken harshly, as he... | |
 | 1831 - 584 pages
...in my conscience beseech the Almighty to bless. JSB A SHORT LETTER FROM A FATHER TO HIS CHILDREN. " The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast." MY DEAR CHILDREN, IT has pleased the Almighty, in his infinite wisdom, to remove from you one of the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...some, on earnest business bent, Their muruvring labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain...forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ; The... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...some, on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
