 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...holy zeal." See his Poems, by Mr. Maul, ii. 121. C 2 And ye, that from the stately brow 5 Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way : 10 Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Great Britain - 1816 - 494 pages
...cheerfulness of the scene; and Edwin, who had an excellent memory, repeated the following lines from Gray : " Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields...careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain." I * " Many eminent persons," said Mr. Franklin, " have been educated here; and the episcopal chair of... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...in his Ode on a distant view of Eton College has introduced the same tenderness of recollection. « Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood strayM A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from you blow, My weary soul they seem to soothe,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1816 - 362 pages
...understanding." CHAPTER X. t vi • . '• v '. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shades ! si . Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain. Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College '» i > It is not by corporeal wants and infirmities only,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...grateful Science still adores Her Heury's holy shade ; And ye, that, from the stately brow t)f Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...hoary Thames along His silver-winding way! Ah happy bills! ah pleasing shade! Ah fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...adores Her HENRY'S holy shade ! • -•- And ye that from the stately brow Of WINDSOR'S height, the expanse below, Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey,...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! GRAY. ETON is a pleasant village, separated from WIND* so R by the Thames, over which is a wooden... | |
 | Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1817 - 300 pages
...unhinge her understanding.' CHAPTER X. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shades ! * Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain. Ode on a dittant Prospect of Eton College. IT is not by corporeal wants and infirmities only, that... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 352 pages
...Valancourt, or of any other person. CHAPTER XVI. Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade! Ah fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to... | |
 | Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1820 - 408 pages
...to unhinge her understanding." CHAPTER X. Ah, bappy bilk ! ah, pleasing shades ! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain. Ode on a distant fretfect of Elm Colltgt. IT is not by corporeal wants and infirmities only, that men... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...grateful Science still adores Her Heury's1 holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray 'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, 1 King... | |
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A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. 
