| Walter Scott - 1823 - 384 páginas
...seems almost to unhinge her understanding." CHAPTER XXVI. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shades ! All , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, , A stranger yet to pain. Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. IT is not by corporeal wants and infirmities only that men... | |
| John Timbs - 1823 - 330 páginas
...and watching their progress to maturity : Ah ! happy hills, ah ! pleasing shade-r Ah! fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain. GRAY. At that period, too, I admired the enchanting scenery of this picturesque country ; but it was... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields beloved in vain, Where...pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary Miss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of... | |
| Mary White (novelist.) - 1824 - 688 páginas
...handkerchief in play and buoyancy of spirit. " Ah, happy shades ! ah, pleasing scenes ! Ah, days belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain." Those days had surely not been all delight; but if a reproof had checked for a moment the full tide... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...well as one from Dart's Westminster Abbey, 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, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth,... | |
| Friedrich von Matthisson - 1825 - 406 páginas
...hills! ah pleasing shades! j4h ßelds helov'd in vain; Where once my carelef.t childhood stray' d, Л stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary llifs bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to footh , And redolent... | |
| A. Selwyn - 1825 - 196 páginas
...; and how forcibly is the poet's words now recalled to • remembrance : — " Ah, happy hills — ah, pleasing shade, — Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain !' " " True it was, dear Jane (said Mr. Montague, addressing his wife,)... | |
| Writer - 1825 - 1138 páginas
...heart, at least felt part of the strain : " Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ; 1 feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh, their gladsome wing,... | |
| Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - 1825 - 296 páginas
...fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'3, A stranger yet lo pain ! ] fee! the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh Iheir gladsome wing ; Jly weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe... | |
| 1826 - 310 páginas
...Henry the Sixth) founder of the college. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...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... | |
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