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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... "
Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other Poems - Page 184
by Thomas Gray - 1853 - 186 pages
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Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...harmony of life. 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...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. ******* A third of these ideas I find in his commonplace book, on the same page with his argument for...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 6

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1820 - 594 pages
...his earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last Co a new heaven and a new earth: ' The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are op'ning Paradise.' — p. 509. We now take leave of this valuable work, which has renewed and extended...
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Addresses

Jesse Appleton - 1820 - 220 pages
...life, as they indicate the care and agency of a friend, omniscient and almighty. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note, that swells the gale,...the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." So far, as you either oppose, or neglect religion, you are at warfare with reason, with moral feelings,...
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Poetry for Children: Consisting of Short Pieces to be Committed to Memory

Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 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. 72 The Wlnrlu'md.—To Leven Water. THE WHIRLWIND. WHEN forth from gloomy clouds...
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Tales of Fancy: Country neighbors, or, the secret. 1820

Sarah Harriet Burney - 1820 - 444 pages
...breathe, and walk again ; The simplest note that swells the gale, The meanest flow'ret in the vale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him, are opening Paradise'." " Admirable Gray !" exclaimed Mr, Tremayne. " He must have felt, ere he could have described so accurately...
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...of life. 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...that swells the gale/ The common sun, the air, the sides, To him are opening Paradise. MR. GRAY'S OI>E AT THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE.— Translated by Mis*...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 29

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...life. See the Wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crytalline well, And tastes it as it goes. [While far below the maddening crowd Rush headlong to the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 12

Scotland - 1822 - 828 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. To wish our friends Health and Happiness, has always been considered as the most appropriate mode of...
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The Favourite of Nature: A Tale ...

Mary Ann Kelty - 1822 - 382 pages
...the beautiful language of the poet, to describe what I feel : " The meanest flow'ret of the rale, " The simplest note that swells the gale, " The common sun, the air, the skies, " To me are opening Paradise." " Am I to believe that these exquisite feelings are only bestowed upon me...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 1

Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last, to a new heaven and a new earth .— The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." tosophy by the cupola;—there is but one entrance, and that entrance is the vestibule. Well was it...
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