 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.  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 4251823Full view - About this book
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...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, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from yon blow A momentary bliss Bestow ; AB, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem'... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 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, A...from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their dadsome wine, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth 2, To breathe... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...ideas ; particularly in this stanza : " Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov.d in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray,d, A...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 282 pages
...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 - Digesta - 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 A 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
...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, A...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 - English literature - 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 A 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 - English poetry - 1816 - 262 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 A 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... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1816 - 362 pages
...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,... | |
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