| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...plcafing fliade ! Ah fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my carelefs childhood ftray'd, A ftranger e diftrefs hath ta'en from me the Ihow Of fmooth civility. A blils beftow ; As waving frcih their gladibme wing, My weary foul they feem to footh, And, redolent... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...flowers Wanders the hoary Thames along Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing shades ! Ah fields helov'd ill vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray 'd,...stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from you hlow A momentary hliss hestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe.... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...ah pleafing (bade ! Ah fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my carelefs childhood ftray'd, A Itranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from you blow A momentary blifs beltovr; As, waving frelh their gladfome wing, My weary foul they feem to footh, And, redolent... | |
| Robert Anderson - English language - 1805 - 196 pages
...fhade t " Ah fields beloved in vain > - »" Where once my carelefs childhood ilray'il, " A ftranger yet to pain ! '' I feel the gales that from you blow " A momentary blifs beftow j '1 As, waving frefh their gladfome wing, ' . " My weary foul thy feem to footh, •'... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...hills '. all pleasing shade ! Ah fiel'ls belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A straX! - Mow A momentary bli>s<; bestow ; As waving fresh their gladsome wing, Wy weary soul they seem to sooth,... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...soothes our pains, and age has pains to soothe." Young. 51. Greek Ode on Eton, by Mr. Capel Lofft. " Where once my careless childhood stray 'd, A stranger yet to pain." (fray. 53. The difficulty of a genuine transcript of the operarations of the mind greater than those,... | |
| John George Phillimore - Digesta - 1815 - 284 pages
...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." As to... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679 - 1816 - 360 pages
...which seems almost to H-nhinge her understanding." CHAPTER X. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shades ! 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, It is not by corporeal wants and infirmities only, that... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...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 sooth, And redolent of joy and youth,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 380 pages
...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." As to... | |
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