 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.  Report of the Secretary for Public Instruction ... - Page 70by Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...of spring. Drydtlfs Fablt on ths Pythag. Systtm. While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...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. Gay hope is... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...flying ball ? (f) And, redolent of jay andymH. While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...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. Gay hope is... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the lying ball? While some, on earnest 'business beat , Their murm'ring labours ply ''Gainst graver hours , that bring constraint...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. Gay hope... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...redolent of joy and youth. And bees their honey redolent of spring. JDryde&'s Fable on the Pythag. System, 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten...little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest bus'ness bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint,...little reign, And unknown regions dare descry; Still as they run the; look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 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...their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry j Still as they run, they look behind. They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying hall? While some on earnest husiness bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 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...little reign, And unknown regions dare descry; Still as they rim they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind. And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? Whilst some, on earnest buisness bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint...little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fea/ful joy. I Gay hope... | |
 | 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...little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is... | |
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