 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 ページ
...enthral ? What idle progeny succeed, Tu chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? " While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours, that brmg constraint, To sweeten liberty ; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little rei^n,... | |
 | 1847 - 490 ページ
...progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? " While some on urgent business bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. " To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 ページ
...I luii InlllLT Somc bold adventm'ers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regious dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snateh a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posscst; The tear forgot... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 ページ
...enthral 1 What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is their's by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 ページ
...which inthral! What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball i While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed ¡ The tear forgot as soon as shed,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 ページ
...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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ;4 The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 ページ
...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 ページ
...reflect on the season when first they felt the titillation of love, the budding passions, and the first Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their...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 ページ
...for breaking bounds.* * How graphically and beautifully Gray alludes to this schoolboy offence : " While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring...graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty. To the happiness he experienced in such society, Walpole has himself borne testimony in one of the... | |
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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. 
