Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved 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, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they... Memoirs of Chateaubriand, Vol - Page 120by François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1848 - 692 pages
...among Wanders the 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, A stranger yet to pain !" EVERY thing in the neighbourhood of Windsor is redolent of Gray. Here his joys began, and his sorrows... | |
| 1838 - 332 pages
...ilow'rs among Wanders the 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, A stranger yet to pain! 1 feel the gales that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow ; As waving fresh their gladsome wing,... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1838 - 144 pages
...the portfolio will be answered. SKETCHES. LETTER I. " All happy hills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah field* beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! 1 feel the gales, that from you blow, A momentary bliss bestow." You request me, my dear friend,... | |
| John Barras Hay - 1839 - 376 pages
...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...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second Spring."* But, Gentlemen, no delight or... | |
| University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 414 pages
...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...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second Spring."* But, Gentlemen, no delight or... | |
| 1840 - 372 pages
...among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 722 pages
...his recollection. He was ready to exclaim with the poet, • " Ah, happy courts! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain I I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My... | |
| 1840 - 758 pages
...courts ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once ray carelcea childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, AB waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to seothe, And redolent of joy and youth,... | |
| Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...the second verse the represented speaker says Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields, belov'd in vain, Where once my 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... | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 428 pages
...inspiration of tlie scene, and I almost involuntarily exclaim, ' Thank God, I am with you once again ! ' " ' I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving ftcsh jour gladsome win; My buoyant soul you seem to sootbe, And redolent with scenes of youth, I breatbe... | |
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