 | 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 breast : Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue ; Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigor born ;... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1834 - 528 pages
...here, from the following lines in the Ode to Eton College, where, speaking of school-boys, he sings : " still as they run, they look behind — They hear a voice in every idrtrf," &c. But we will be merciful. The similitude is merely one of the thousand and nine strange... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours 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 vigour born... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 584 pages
...beyond their years. Let them have their day whilst it lasts — ' yay hope be tne;rSi by fancy icd, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sun-shine of the breast : Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 652 pages
...soon I am thinking of motto and dedication. Your JC Enci 3 small bills for household furnitures. ' 'They hear a voice in every wind /And snatch a fearful joy': Thomas Gray (1716-71), 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'. 2 Soon after the letter of [24... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...absorbed in their activities; Gray's are haunted by the disillusionment the speaker sees awaiting them: "Still as they run they look behind, / They hear a voice in every wind, / And snatch a fearful joy." Melancholically looking behind him from the vantage of the suffering that the poem insists is the condition... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...soul they seem to soothe. And. redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. (1. 17-19) 15 (1. 37-39) 16 Alas! regardless of their doom The litte victims play; (1. 50-51) 17 No more; — where... | |
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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. 
