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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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Destiny; Or, The Chief's Daughter, Volumes 1-2

Susan Ferrier - Highlands (Scotland) - 1831 - 508 pages
...sickness or sorrow, but are again opened to the soothing influence and gentle harmony of nature, " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common earth, the air, the skies," are indeed to them " as opening paradise," and insensibly they " feel that...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigor...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON. YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the wat'ry glade,...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...view : Mark the wretch, that long has toss'd 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. — Gray. THE blackbird strives with emulation sweet, And Echo answers from her close retreat : On...
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On the Life, Writings, and Genius of Akenside: With Some Account of His Friends

Charles Bucke - Physicians - 1832 - 334 pages
...his 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." " With God himself hold converse." B. III. 629. There is an elegant paper in the Tatler (or Spectator),...
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The Christian Psalmist: Or, Hymns Selected and Original. With an ...

James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1832 - 484 pages
...wretch, that long has toet On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And hreathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale....swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To htm are opening Paradise." Gray's Fragment on Vicissitude. It cannot be questioned that this is genuine...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...his 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 gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him arc op'ning Paradise." Dmjnlil Siaoart'i Eaay on the Cultivation of Intellectual Habits. Cure of Drunkennesi....
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The Christian examiner and Church of Ireland magazine

1832 - 1000 pages
...will start up an agreeabl« companion, with which he may bold sweet converse. •' The meanest flowret of the vale. The simplest note that swells the gale,...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Have you never felt pained with a sense of your own ignorancea when such a person dwelt with delight...
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Letters for the press

Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 pages
...depths of the sky, and requires nothing else to fill his mind :— " The meanest flow'ret of the dale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." My own taste for the beauties of the woods and fields is as old as my recollection. I have some curious...
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Literary and Religious Sketches

John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...— ' See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigor !ost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simple note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.'...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3

1833 - 444 pages
...his earliest and most precious years, is thus mtroduced at last, to 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 openinp Paradise." DUGALD STEWART. POPULAR II I Kit VTl l!i , NO. I. STKELE. THE TATTLER. THAT illustrious...
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