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" 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... "
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 4

Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
..." When men," says Professor Stewart,* " have succeeded at length in cultivating their imagination, things the most familiar and unnoticed disclose charms,...gale ; The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." losophy by the cupola ;— there is but one entrance, and that entrance is the vestibule....
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 1

Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...pleasures of vicissitude conveys but a faint image of what is experienced by the man, who, after baring lost in vulgar occupation and vulgar amusements his...gale ; The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." tosophy by the cupola;—there is but one entrance, and that entrance is the vestibule....
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...conveys but a faint image of what is experienced by the man, who^ after having lost in vulgar occupations and vulgar amusements, his earliest and most precious...that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the sides, To him are opening Paradise." [Lesson 10 The effects of foreign travel have been often remarked,...
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Poetical Sketches: The Profession, the Broken Heart, Etc. : with Stanzas for ...

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...gale,'* The common 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...
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Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Scandinavia

Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1824 - 630 pages
...toss'd On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, aud walk again : " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Gray's Wort}, as «ditcd by Matkiat, vol. I. p. 72. Lmd. 1814. t CHAP, steeped in...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

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, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. "f There is yet another principle which modifies the primary laws of suggestion with...
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Sermons, on subjects chiefly practical, with illustrative notes and an ...

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 common sun, the air, the skies, To him, are opening paradise." This captivating passage, is at least equally descriptive of the change accomplished...
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The Christian Psalmist: Or, Hymns, Selected and Original, with an ...

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...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Gray's Fragment on Vicissitude. It cannot be questioned that this is genuine poetry...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

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...
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, Volume 1

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,...
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