 | 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... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 2001 - 708 pàgines
...and the terrace, without having observed a shadow of Valancourt or of any other person. CHAPTER XI '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, A momentary bliss bestow As... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - 2006 - 284 pàgines
...respects. The lines I have in mind are taken from Gray's 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College': Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade. Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow. As... | |
 | Robert Pattison - 2008 - 210 pàgines
...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, whose...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. (1-1o) There are numerous distances here— the physical distance of the poet from what he observes... | |
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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. 
