 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 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,...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...magnificent prospect in well-known lines : — Gray has I -" From the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way." The north side of the terrace is constantly open to the public ; and this is by far the finest .part.... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 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, the glorious... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 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 poetical genius ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...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 way! Ah happy rills ! ah pleasing shade ! Ah fields beloved in vain !— Where once... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 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...whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way : " Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vaiu ! Where once... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1849 - 472 pages
...antique towers " of Eton ; and the " expanse below of grove, of lawn, of mead," " Whose turf, Those 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, the glorious... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 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,...flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ; Ah, happy hills, ab pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my... | |
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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... 
