 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pàgines
...language, Spring, 702 : " Inhuman caught ; and in the narrow cage From liberty confined and boundless air." And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ^o Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 pàgines
...the titillation of love, the budding passions, and the first Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, And hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy." Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 pàgines
...the titillation of love, the budding passions, and the first Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, And hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy." Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry:...Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy... | |
 | 1852 - 248 pàgines
...'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty, Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry...Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posseat ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Theirs, buxom health of rosy... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pàgines
...graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain. The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry...Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health of rosy hue,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry...Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : r 6 Their's buxom health... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pàgines
...graver hours, that bring constraint, To sweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry...hope is theirs, by fancy fed, — Less pleasing when possess'd ! The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast ; ODE ON ETON COLLEGE. 81 Theirs... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1983 - 652 pàgines
...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 - 1990 - 338 pàgines
...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... | |
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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. 
