...Keble remembers the "fearful joy" associated with illegitimate adventure in Gray's "Eton College Ode" ("They hear a voice in every wind, / And snatch a fearful joy"), 136 but in his adaptation, the fearfulness functions much more as an index of awe than of guilt: It...

...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.3 Pessoa's "fearful joy" is not quite a schoolboy's "fearful joy," but it is a "scholastic" philosophers....

...the recollection of his mother, but — "Gay hope is his by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed ; The tear forgot as soon as shed The sunshine of the breast." On Saturday in the afternoon I took him and Bess over to Bath for a little sail. Yesterday he went...

...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 possessed; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health of rosy...

...but are not, we find emotion imagined, desired, but not attainable or even pure: "Still as they run they look behind, / They hear a voice in every wind, / And snatch a fearful joy" (11. 38-40). The final movement includes the pageant of horrors. These personifications are the province...

...adventurers" who 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. (35-40.) Suddenly we recognize that the dangers are not behind, but ahead. The truants are running...

...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. (3 1-40) The first four lines of the stanza give us the picture of youth aiming at adulthood, "graver...