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 ye blow, 15 A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they... The Sylvan Wanderer;: Consisting of a Series of Moral, Sentimental, and ... - Страница 24по Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1823 - 778 страници
...value the approbation and support of youth, like the poet who revisits the scenes of his early life : ' I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss...bestow ; As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary »oui ilicy seem to sooth ; And, rt'doleut of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.' But, Gentlemen,... | |
| John Timbs - 1823 - 330 страници
...in sowing seeds, 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1823 - 384 страници
...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... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 страници
...hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd...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 страници
...his 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 страници
...it, if he had recollected them. Both these expressions, as well as one from Dart's Westminster Abbey, Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields...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,... | |
| Writer - 1825 - 1138 страници
...had he been hva mood for sentimental effusion, but his heart, at least felt part of the strain : " Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov'd...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,... | |
| Friedrich von Matthisson - 1825 - 406 страници
...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... | |
| Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - 1825 - 296 страници
...strangers ; and long intervals continued to elapse between hic. • visits. CHAPTER m. •A All, bappy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah. 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 страници
...,-- turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along llii silver-winding way. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where onee my eareless ehildhood stray'd, ' A stranger yet to pain ! I fool the gales, that from ye blow,... | |
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