 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 British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 77by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | History - 1778 - 626 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...clear * crystalline well, And tastes it as it goes. If 'hile far below the madding croud , Hush heudivne to the dangeroHsfood , Where broad and turbulent... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 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 ! CONTEST BETWEEN THE LIPS AND EYES. ADDRESSED TO Miss R. Then wept the Eyes, and from their springs... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again : • H 2 The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell, Near the soitrce whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline * well, And tastes it as it goes. While... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...harmony of life. See the Wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...well, And tastes it as it goes. While far below the madding Crowd Rush headlong to the dangerous flood, Where broad and turbulent it sweeps, And perish... | |
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...and disordered frame. An invalid of this class seems to change his very being with his climate — ' The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.' Secondly, a removal to a mild, that is, to the natives of the north a distant, climate, effects a complete... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 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,...clear crystalline * well, And tastes it as it goes. * So Milton accents the word : " On the crystalline sky, in sapphire thron'd." Par. Lost, Book vi.... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 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 op'ning paradise. CRAY. 72 TJie Whirlwind.— To Leven Water. THE WHIRLWIND. WHEN forth from gloomy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...bed of pain, " At length repair 1m 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, li To him are opening Paradise." Our author's reputation as a poet, was so high, that ^ on the death... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 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...opening Paradise. Humble quiet builds her cell Near the course where pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline well, And taste's it as she goes. * *... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 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. A third of these ideas I find in his common-place book, on the same page with his argument for the... | |
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