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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... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 127
1855
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Gray's Poetical Works: English and Latin : Illustrated

Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...antique towers, That crown the wat'ry glade, Where grateful Science still adores 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, MENANDER. Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 pages
...situation, its vicinity to Windsor, its interesting associations, and its picturesque playing-fields, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. possessed all the qualities usually thought requisite to engender or to stimulate poetical genius ;...
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Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and ..., Volume 3

1847 - 436 pages
...science still 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 shade, whose (lowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! Ah, happy hills! all, pleasing...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 pages
...situation, its vicinity to Windsor, its interesting associations, and its picturesque playing-fields, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver- winding way. possessed all the qualities usually thought requisite to engender or to stimulate...
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Rambles by Rivers: The Thames, Volumes 1-2

James Thorne - 1847 - 480 pages
..."distant spires" and " antique towers " of Eton ; and the " expanse below of grove, of lawn, of mead," " Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way !" And over the richest variety of cultivated country through which our Thames wanders,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 23

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1848 - 692 pages
...CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POET GRAY. BY E. JES8E. " And ye that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights tli' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way : " Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vaiu ! Where once my careless childhood...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...science still 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...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...
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Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College

Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 pages
...antique towers, That crown the wat'ry glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...science still adores Her Heary'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...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ; Ah, happy hills, ab pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood...
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Pilgrimages to English Shrines

Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1850 - 324 pages
...by wisdom as by the dauntless bravery that carries Englishmen triumphant through the world : — ' From the stately brow Of Windsor's heights, th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead, survey ! ' No foreigner should be permitted to leave England without spending a long day at Windsor, and it...
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