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| Brief Description: 112th slide in series showing Eton College from the Thames |
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| Subject Date: 1911 |
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| Creator: Parker, W |
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| Owner: Oxfordshire CC |
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| Contributor: Centre for Oxfordshire Studies |
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| Full Description: Eton College, the greatest Public School of England. It is a red brick building by the riverside and has very extensive playing fields for the use of the boys. At the south of the College is the Chapel, a beautiful building in the perpendicular style, the top of which is just seen at the left of the picture, and the interior of which I will show. One cannot but pause to quote a portion pf Grays lines on a distant aspect of Eton College: - "Ye 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 Windsors heights, the expanse below - Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey: - 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 childhood strayed, - A stranger yet to pain - I feel the gales that from ye blow - A momentary bliss bestow, - A waving fresh their gladsome wing, - My weary soul they seem to soot, - And redolent of Joy and youth, - To breathe a second spring. - - After describing the youth at play or "on earnest business bent" the poet finished his soliloquy with - - To each his sufferings; all are men - Condemned alike to groan; - The tender for anothers pain - The unfeeling for his own. - Yet ah, why should they know their fate? - Since sorrow never comes too late, - And happiness too swiftly flies, - Thought would destroy their paradise - No more; where ignorance is bliss - 'Tis folly to be wise' - - - |
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| Collection: Parker |
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| Place: Windsor, River Thames, England |
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| Dimensions: Height: 3008mm, Width: 3337mm |
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| Subject: Lantern slide, Parker, Source to Sea |
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| Content Type: Lantern slides |
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| Location: Centre for Oxfordshire Studies |
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| Unique ID: tp-ox-pkr_112_eton_college-i-00-001.jpg |
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| IPR: ThamesPilot |
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