See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening... The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ... - Page 1471815Full view - About this book
| Saʻdī - 1823 - 488 pages
...intelligent the " foliage of the grove displays, in every leaf, a " volume of the Creator's works." -" The meanest floweret of the vale, " The simplest note that swells the gale, " The common sun, the air, and skies, " To him are opening paradise !" " On recovering from his .reverie, that holy " man forthwith... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1824 - 224 pages
...Vicissitude, observes of a person under such circumstances, with infinite beauty as well as truth ; — ' The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...sun, the air, the skies To Him are opening Paradise I* A SKETCH. In the fulness of heart which the contemplation of a setting sun, diffusing its hues of... | |
| John Jebb - Sermons, English - 1824 - 418 pages
...precious years, is thus introduced at last, to a new heaven, and a new earth. The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...the air, the skies, To him, are opening paradise." This captivating passage, is at least equally descriptive of the change accomplished by the spirit... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 pages
...thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ! The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. "f There is yet another principle which modifies the primary laws of suggestion with very powerful... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...blended, form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. The meanest floweret of the vaie. The simplest note that swells the gale, The common...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." On the death of Colley Gibber, 1757, he had the honour of refusing the office of Poet Laureate. His... | |
| James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Gray's Fragment on Vicissitude. It cannot be questioned that this is genuine poetry ; and the beautiful,... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 462 pages
...has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell Near the source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...And blended form, with artful strife.] At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, 55 To him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell, Near the source whence Pleasure flows... | |
| American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...Pain, At length repair his vigor lost, And breathe and walk again. The meanest floweret of the vale, 1 The simplest note that swells the gale, The common...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. Can we contemplate these glorious results of the well-ordered action of our systems, and yet be content... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...truth of the Poet's lines— The meanest flow'retof the vale, The simplest note that swells the pale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Gray. Grammar. e early and late attention to the science of mar can only find objections in the mind... | |
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