 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...hearts, is lawful prize ; Nor all that glitters, gold. ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. [IBID.] YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the....; And ye, that from the stately brow Of WINDSOR'S heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...Father and his God. ODE. A distant Prospect of Eton College. 'VTE distant Spires! ye antique Tow'rs! -*- That crown the wat'ry glade Where grateful Science...shade; And ye that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields belov'd in vain ! Where once... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. IE distant Gpireg, ye antique tow'rs, Tbit crown I lie wat'ry glade, \Vbere 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 surrey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flow'rs... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...gold. § 73 . Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. GRAY, YE distant spires, ye antique tow'rs, That crown the wat'ry glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ve, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...glisters, gold. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. f Avifuwoj' i!; ñ iu(v\iâ. Mcnander. YF distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...COLLEGE. * Av9fu."*o," l*nn ~p ; ti; TO Su,-.-xi.»Menandcr, YE distant spires, ye antique towel's, Thai crown the watry glade, Where grateful Science still...; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights 111' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...him also to embalm the memory of his founder. Thus in his 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. Nor must I fail here to mention a book written by a priory-priest: it is entitled, " On the Virtues... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...PROSPECT or ETON COLLEGE. ixanj «fdipciffi;, si; ro Menander. Incert. Fragm. ver. 382. ed. Cler. p. 245. YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's -f- holy shade ; NOTES. * This, as Mason informs us, was the. first English production of Gray which... | |
 | William Marshall Craig - 1818 - 632 pages
...incomparable lyric poet, Gray, has thus apostrophised : Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That cruwn the wa'try glade, Where grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ! The College is founded for a Provost and seven Fellows, one of whom is Vice-Provost; and for the... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...III. ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. AvOpwwof wavy irpotyaau; sie TO $v<rrw)(juv. MENANPEKYE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...grateful Science still adores Her HENRY'S * holy shade ; * King Henry VI. founder of the College. And ye, that from the stately brow ' Of WIN DSOR'S heights... | |
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Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. 
