 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...this magnificent prospect in well-known lines : — Gray has I -" From the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way." The north side of the terrace is constantly open to the public ; and this is by... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, MENANDER. Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders...hoary Thames along His silver-winding way! Ah happy rills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields beloved in vain !— Where once my careless childhood stray'd—... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...situation, its vicinity to Windsor, its interesting associations, and its picturesque playing-fields, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. possessed all the qualities usually thought requisite to engender or to stimulate poetical genius ;... | |
 | 1847 - 436 pages
...science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights the expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead, survey ; Whose turf, whose shade, whose (lowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! Ah, happy hills! all, pleasing... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
..."distant spires" and " antique towers " of Eton ; and the " expanse below of grove, of lawn, of mead," " Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way !" And over the richest variety of cultivated country through which our Thames wanders,... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...verses : " All, happy hill»! aH, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov'd in vain 1 Where once my carele ss childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from yon blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My -weary eoul they seem to... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 pages
...Gray's Poem, " On a distant Prospect of Eton College/' " And ye that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way." Bnt in these lines which, in both poems, almost immediately follow, there is a still greater resemblance... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...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 survey, Whose turf,...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. The Scotch poet Montgomerie uses a stanza aa4 b8 cc4 b8 ded 63 f fr gs hhj gs in his The Cherrie and... | |
 | Antony Easthope - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 240 pages
...'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'. When in the second verse the represented speaker says Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields, belov'd...careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! the idea of childhood has come to represent both primary narcissism and an ideological conception of... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 250 pages
...(CPW i: 48). It is difficult not to hear Thomas Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College": "Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, / Ah fields belov'd...careless childhood stray'd, / A stranger yet to pain!" (11-14). Now compare an example of the Ah Mock-Regretful, in "Monody on a Tea-Kettle," in which "The... | |
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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. 
