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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. "
The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence with ... - Page 8
by Thomas Gray - 1807
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...silver-winding way: Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade I Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd r A stranger yet to pain! I...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 29

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...Her HENHY'S holy shade ;* And ye, that from the stately brow Of WINDSOH'S heights the' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose...flowers among' Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way : Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! Where once...
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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

Decorative arts - 1824 - 450 pages
...ye antique towers, That crown the waf:ry glade ! 0 happy hill, O pleasing shade, O fields, belov'.l 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. WEST SIDE. Hard by yon wood, now smiling...
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Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818 ..., Volume 2

Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...As I walked through the different lecture rooms, I often thought of St. Mary's College, Baltimore, " where once my careless childhood stray'd, a stranger yet to pain." I contrasted the awful grandeur and solemn pomp of this * The gates of the University were shut against...
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A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking, in Surrey

John Timbs - Dorking (England) - 1823 - 330 pages
...in sowing seeds, and watching their progress to maturity : Ah ! happy hills, ah ! pleasing shade-r Ah! fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain. GRAY. At that period, too, I admired the enchanting scenery of this picturesque country ; but it was...
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Old mortality

Walter Scott - 1823 - 384 pages
...unhinge her understanding." CHAPTER XXVI. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shades ! All , 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 men...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 shade, whose flow'rs among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way. All, happy hills ! ah, pleasing...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...lawful prize Nor all, that glisters, gold. III. ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. Alexander. YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the...way ! 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...
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Beatrice; or, The Wycherly family, Volume 1

Mary White (novelist.) - 1824 - 688 pages
...his handkerchief in play and buoyancy of spirit. " Ah, happy shades ! ah, pleasing scenes ! Ah, days belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain." Those days had surely not been all delight; but if a reproof had checked for a moment the full tide...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whoee / Ab, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ab, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...
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