 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 pages
...of ideas ; particularly in this stanza : " Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov.d in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray,d,...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,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 282 pages
...genuine language of poetry and of nature: " Ah, happy bills ! ah, pleasing shade ! " Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! " Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...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... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1815 - 284 pages
...introduced the same tenderness of recollection. " Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belw'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd...stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from you blow, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring."... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...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 stray'd,...stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow 15 A momentary bliss bestow, NOTES. Ver. 5. And ye that from the stateh/ brow] " and now to where Majestic... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1816 - 380 pages
...introduced the same tenderness of recollection. " Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd...stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from you blow, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring."... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 264 pages
...hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. — Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd...stranger yet to pain ! — I feel the gales, that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow, A* waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 362 pages
...unhinge her 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,... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1816 - 494 pages
...repeated the following lines from Gray : " 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 * " Many eminent persons," said Mr. Franklin, " have been educated here; and the episcopal chair of... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...the 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,...stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from yon blow A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary sonl they seem to... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...Ah, pleasing shade ! " Ah, fields belov'd in vmin ' " Where once mj careless childhood stray 'd, " A stranger yet to pain ! " I feel the gales that from ye blow " A momentary bliss bestow, " AM waving fresh their gladsome wing " My weary soul they sctm to tooth, " And, redolent of joy and... | |
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