 | Richard Manley - 1835 - 140 pages
...WHERE THE AUTHOR WAS GRATUITOUSLY TAUGHT THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF READING, WRITING, AND ARITHMETIC. " Ah happy hills! Ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields belov'd...careless childhood stray'd, A stranger, yet, to pain." — GRAY. AH ! it was there, where yon green trees are bending, And waving gently to the sunny air... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...stately brow Of Windsor's heights the expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead, survey, Whose turf, whoxe shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames...silver-winding way ; Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade I Ah fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain! I feel... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...View of Eton College " is worthy, in some of the stanzas, of the " Elegy in a Country Church-yard." Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields belov'd 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,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...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 survey, Whose turf, whose...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, As... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...POET GRAY. BY Б. JESSE. " And ye that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose...Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain !" EVERY thing in... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...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 survey, Whose turf, whose...whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along 156 GRAY. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...are very happily displayed in some of the stanzas of his ODE ON THE DISTANT PROSPECT OP ETON COLLEGE. Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood play'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...are very happily displayed in some of the stanzas of his ODE ON THE DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood play'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1838 - 144 pages
...portfolio will be answered. SKETCHES. LETTER I. " All happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah field* beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! 1 feel the gales, that from you blow, A momentary bliss bestow." You request me, my dear friend,... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...Her Heury's holy shade ; 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 ilow'rs among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing... | |
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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. 
