...prospect of Eton college, we need hardly recal to the reader's mind : — I feel the gale* that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving: fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they teem to soothe. And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. It is in the poem, however,...

...belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving...redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames (for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green,...

...stranger yet to pain. I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving freah their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth,...redolent of joy and youth. To breathe a second spring." " I th.nk," observes Burns, " it is one of the greatest pleasures attending a poetic genius, that we...

...that so happily treated by Gray. The lover of the muses may truly say, I feel the gales that round yo 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 contrast, indeed, is somewhat...

...Cyclop—from the pencil of Poussin : " —The gales that from them blow, A momentary bliss bestow : The weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth— He breathes life's second spring." But so hasty, or uninformed, or unobservant; and so temerarious,...

...vain ! ' Where once my careless childhood stray'd, ' A stranger yet to pain. ' I feel the gales that from ye blow ' A momentary bliss bestow, ' As waving...of joy, and youth, ' To breathe a second spring.' ' Floreat Etona !' It is an old motto, and a pure aspiration ; and long may she flourish with her classic...

...that so happily treated by Gray. The lover of the muses may truly say, " I feel the pales, that round 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 contrast, indeed, is somewhat...

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...careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain.' Oh, that I could add, .. ' I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow; As waving...redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.' But this can never be. All on which memory could delight to dwell is shut out by that which 'eternity...

...Where once my careless chlldhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales, that from you hlow A momentary bliss bestow ; As, waving fresh their...redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Pull many a sprightly race, î>;sporting on thy margent green,...