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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry - Page 464
by Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1016 pages
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The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pages
...liberty: Some bold adventurers difdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare defcry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And i'natch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by Fancy fed, Lcifs pleafing when poflefs'd...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of 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 hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...bring constraint To sweeten liberty; Some bold 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 Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest;...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...: 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 fea/ful joy. I Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...; 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 ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ! The tear forgot...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...: 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 ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearfu) joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posseat; The tear forgot...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unkown regions dare descry : $ - Ana snatch a fearful joy. •, Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posses* ; The tear...
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The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 1

English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint 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 theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ;...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...; 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. Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest...
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The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...and in the narrow cage From liberty confined and boundless air." And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 40 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest...
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