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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 British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical ..., Volumes 25-26

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 636 pages
...when it happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ' It may possibly be objected, that our men-children are too...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 21-22

British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...when it happens, as to justify the picture which the sweetest of our elegiac poets has drawn of us : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. GRAY. VoL. XXII. M " It may possibly be objected, that our menchildren...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign. And unknown regions dare descry; ublished by William C. Hall every wind, And match a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 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 Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...slow Meander's margent green And in the violet-embroider'd vale." 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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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

1826 - 310 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 possess'd...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 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 possess'd...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pages
...College. 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 Casket

1828 - 400 pages
...knocker ! You are not at home, recollect — yet of men in your circumstances, my friend Gray well says, Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.' JUSTICE. — Mysias, the brother of Antigonas, king of Macedon,...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 possess'd...
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