 | 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...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 theirs... | |
 | William Enfield - 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...behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fea/ful joy. I Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon... | |
 | British poets - 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;... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...some on earnest business bent. Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...enthrall ? 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 theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
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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. 
