| English literature - 1847 - 446 pages
...distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful 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 mend, survey ; Whose turf, whose shado, whose flowers among... | |
| 1847 - 436 pages
...distant spires, yc antique towen, Tint crown the «aten- gla_de, Where grateful 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... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...distant spires ! ye antique towers ! That crown the watery glade, Where grateful 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 flowers among Wanders... | |
| 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... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 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...flowers among, Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ; Ah, happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my... | |
| 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... | |
| Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the wat'ry glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately...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... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - England - 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... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful 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 turf, whose shade, whose flowers among,... | |
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