...: 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; The tear forgot...

...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 jay. ' Gay hope is their's by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgof...

...shamefaced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom, and fills one full of obstacles. — Shakspeare. Still as they run they* look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And catch a fearful glance. — Gray. When the mind proposes honourable ends, not only the yirtues, but...

...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, Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The...

...: 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. 5 Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot...

...Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, i And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 5 Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot...

...can repeat them all. I do envy Gray these lines in his Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; " 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 possessed:" we cannot...

...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. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, 1 Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot...

...as he lives, goes back like a flash to the unlawful delight of a schoolboy's stolen freedom : — " Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy." And who that has ever watched a party of children, listening with bright eyes...

...absorbed in their 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...