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 Quarterly Review - Page 33edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
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