...of his boyish years ; and how forcibly is the poet's words now recalled to • remembrance : — " Ah, happy hills — ah, pleasing shade, — Ah, fields...beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain !' " " True it was, dear Jane (said Mr. Montague, addressing his wife,)...

...view of Eton excited in the pensive mind of Gray, fail to present themselves to a Wycchamical poet ? " 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 that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow, As...

...riper times and full-blown follies of manhood. In this he agrees with Gray, who exclaims, in his " Distant prospect of Eton College :" " Ah happy hills...pleasing shade ! Ah fields beloved in vain, Where once my caieless childhood strayed A stranger yet to pain. I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss...

...handle of the door bell is just where it was when Raby Hall was your home. Then, too, it was mine ! 'Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields...beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain.* Oh, that I could add, * I feel the gales that from ye blowr A momentary...

...subject by appropriate apparatus, and lucidly explained the various phenomena of water. • OLNEY. " An, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayM, A stranger yet to poin! I feel the gales that i'rom you blow A momenlarv bliss bestow."—GRAY....

...characteristics are very happily displayed in some of the stanzas of his ODE ON THE DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETOX COLLEGE. Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields...beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood played, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As,...

...human nature. These characteristics are very happily displayed in some of the stanzas of his ODE ON THE DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood play'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales...

...RECOLLECTIONS OF A SPORTSMAN'S LIFE. BY THE EDITOR. CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH. — LE PREMIER PAS. " Ah, happy hills ' ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray M, A strauger yet to pain." ODE TO ETON COLLEGE. Moses Primrose, on his return from his first...

...in bygone days, I could not help repeating to myself those sweet lines of the admirable Gray : — " Ah, happy hills — ah, pleasing shade—- Ah, fields, beloved in vain, Where once my youthful childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain." 249 myself, into the eventful period of manhood,...

...Whose turf, whose shade, 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 careless chiUhood stray'd A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow,...