 | 1840 - 372 pages
...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...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1841 - 208 pages
...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...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth , And, redolent of joy and youth, To breath a second spring. Eton College was founded in the... | |
 | Charles Rowcroft - 1844 - 894 pages
...for his future ease and prosperity, that forms the subject of the following pages. CHAP TEE III. " Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth; And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring." GBAT'S ODE TO ETON COLLEGE. IT... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...Her Henry's* holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately hrow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse helow Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey; Whose turf, whose...way! Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields heloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...founder of the college. And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights the expanse below (Jf ernigh. Oh, daring Muse ! wilt thou indeed essay To...living words to say The dazzling glories of that heave liel'ds beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain : I feel... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 676 pages
...and " grinning infamy," to happy hills and pleasing shade, with the certain and welcome sensation, " I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they teem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring." Well do we remember our... | |
 | Robert Snow - 1845 - 330 pages
...— Then, swift as thought can fly, I dream of woods and meadows green On Thames's banks that lie. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields...careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain.* * From Gray's Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. Return, return, inconstant thoughts ; What... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...a Distant Prospect of Eton College," is but the reminiscence of a man regretful of departed youth : Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields...careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain ! How feelingly he anticipates the coming experience of the sporting boys ! regardless of their doom,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way. "Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields...gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow." The third is again from the Elegy : — " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1848 - 692 pages
...POET GRAY. BY E. JES8E. " And ye that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights tli' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose...hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vaiu ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain !" EVERY thing in the neighbourhood... | |
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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. 
