 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved ia 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, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1843 - 722 pages
...union, the idea of which seems almost to unhinge her understanding." VOL. II. TT tilt t:iui:i2=Kjmf), Ah, happy hills! — ah, pleasing shade*! Ah, fields...beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray '(I, A stranger yet to pain. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton Collcgf. T is not by corporal... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...cheekj— 'Tis that, which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. Scott. SCENES OF EDUCATION. 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 ye blow, • A momentary bliss bestow,... | |
 | Martingale - Country life - 1843 - 314 pages
...and enliven the heart. But the Thresher shares in none of these. Nor can he, if he would exclaim— " I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My very soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a... | |
 | James White - 1843 - 310 pages
...and enliven the heart. But the Thresher shares in none of these. Nor can he, if he would exclaim— " I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My very soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a... | |
 | 1843 - 534 pages
...the truth of Gray's exquisite lines on turning back in thought to the scenes of his childhood: — " I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As on they move with gladsome wing ; My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey ; Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary nvaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery. I will exert their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...PoEL-3; PoLF; PPP; Prim; SCV; TEP; TrGrPo; UnPo; WBLP; WeW Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 13 traight . stray'd, (1. 11—13) 14 My weary soul they seem to soothe. And. redolent of joy and youth, To breathe... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - Reference - 1994 - 428 pages
...inspiration of tlie scene, and I almost involuntarily exclaim, ' Thank God, I am with you once again ! ' " ' I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving ftcsh jour gladsome win; My buoyant soul you seem to sootbe, And redolent with scenes of youth, I breatbe... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...been quoted as straightforward evidence of Gray's attitude with regard to the time passed at Eton: Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved...childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the glades, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary... | |
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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. 
