 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 sidor
...describes the happy temper of boyhood:— " Gay hope is theirs by fanry fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the...Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit. invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour horn : The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | 1849 - 588 sidor
...gushing forth from unselfish hearts — " Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast." Boast then no more my dear E. of volcanic mountains whose intestine fires and flaming tops penetrate... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sidor
...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 their's by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of... | |
 | Sophocles - 1851 - 364 sidor
...Gray, in his beautiful Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, v. 41 fg., thus writes : — • " Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when...Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 sidor
...hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy." Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. * " Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when...Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, dear object of their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 sidor
...descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ^o Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when...of the breast : Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, 43 Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1829 - 584 sidor
...beyond their years. Let them have their day whilst it lasts — ' yay hope be tne;rSi by fancy icd, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon...Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born, The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1983 - 652 sidor
...soon I am thinking of motto and dedication. Your JC Enci 3 small bills for household furnitures. ' 'They hear a voice in every wind /And snatch a fearful joy': Thomas Gray (1716-71), 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'. 2 Soon after the letter of [24... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 sidor
...activities; Gray's are haunted by the disillusionment the speaker sees awaiting them: "Still as they run they look behind, / They hear a voice in every wind, / And snatch a fearful joy." Melancholically looking behind him from the vantage of the suffering that the poem insists is the condition... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sidor
...soothe. And. redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. (1. 17-19) 15 Still as they run . (1. 37-39) 16 Alas! regardless of their doom The litte victims play; (1. 50-51) 17 No more; — where... | |
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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. 
