 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...  The Poetical Works - Page 6by Thomas Gray - 1826 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...circle's speed. Or urge the flying ball f While some, on earnest bus'ness bent, Their murnTring labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint, To...as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...Or urge the Hying ball? While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply '< ; .iiii-U graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty...as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearfu) joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posseat;... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labors unkown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind. Ana... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...of the college. 1 And bees tin ir honey r< dolent of spring. Dryden's Fable on the Pythag. System. While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring...reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they nm they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay Hope is theirs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed 'o chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring...their little reign. And unknown regions dare descry I Still as they nm they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. lay... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: j. >; Some bold adventurers disdain The limit of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry:...every wind, ' . • „' And snatch a fearful joy." Murmuring labours. — Boys in getting their lessons by heart are apt to repeat them in a kind of murmuring... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? 30 While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint...To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain 35 The limits of their little reign, • NOTES. In the second volume, p. 45, Mr. Mant observes, that... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. i Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? While some on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snateh a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint...look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snateh a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
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