 | J. Douglas Kneale - 1999 - 250 pàgines
...(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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 2000 - 196 pàgines
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 | Jeffrey Meyers - 2000 - 404 pàgines
...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...whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along Her silver-winding way. In Grays idealized Eton, the innocent boys exult in the hope and vigor of youth,... | |
 | Yi-Fu Tuan - 1977 - 250 pàgines
...scene. In "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" I1747l, the poet reminisced wistfully over youth. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd...careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! When we stand before a prospect, our mind is free to roam. As we move mentally out to space, we also... | |
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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. 
