...honourable race of distinction, had their lot not been cast for them among " The distant spires and antique towers That crown the watery glade, Where...grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ;" but who have never had the resolution to forego the rich table and stately masion of " Kings," for...

...find, And found the visionary bower. THOMAS GRAY. 1716-1771. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...

...rests, every knoll, every cluster of trees suggests some remembrance to the mind. Beneath is Eton, With antique towers That crown the watery glade, Where...grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade. Further on is Slough, the residence of the Herschells, father and son, the greatest astronomers of...

...that glisters, gold. OS A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. s, Ixavrj rtpoifaflij ft; to MENANDEK. YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...grateful Science still adores Her Henry's * holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights the' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of...

...Poor Gelert's dying yell. HON. W. SPENCER. $}rosprtt of Eton YE distant spires, ye antique tow'rs, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful science still adores Her Henry's* holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...

...ode of Gray, the first stanza of which gives a picture of the whole scene from Windsor terrace : " Ye distant Spires ! ye antique Towers ! That crown...grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade : And ye that from the stately hrow Of Windsor's heights the expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead,...

...immediately contiguous to the Provost's Lodge. The front will be upwards of 120 feet in length. * " Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stalely brow Of Windsor's heights th, expanse below Of grove, of l;iwn, of...

...Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left. Cowper. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. YE3 distant spires ! ye antique towers ! That crown the...watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's4 holy shade ; 1 Where tempests, #c. — This line is taken— Cowper himself tell us in a note...

...buildings composing the College ; a scene tinged with the picturesque melancholy of the poet Gray : " Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights the expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mend,...

...venerable buildings composing the College; a scene tinged with the picturesque melancholy of the poet Gray: That crown the watery glade, Where grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy sluide; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights the expanse below Of grove, of lawn,...