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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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The Works of Rev. Jesse Appleton...: Embracing His Course of ..., Volume 2

Jesse Appleton - 1836 - 512 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 oppose, or neglect religion, you are at warfare with reason, with moral feelings, and...
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The Works of Rev. Jesse Appleton, D. D.: Late President of Bowdoin ..., Volume 2

Jesse Appleton - Congregational churches - 1836 - 516 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 oppose, or neglect religion, you are at warfare with reason, with moral feelings, and...
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Plebeians and Patricians, Volume 1

Author of Old maids - Social classes - 1836 - 210 pages
...whilst Sir John hung over her, little less affected than his sister. CHAPTER XXV. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...air, the skies, To him — are opening Paradise." Gray. Anne's simple and affecting narrative was soon told, and it called forth the sympathies of her...
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Plebeians and patricians, by the author of 'Old maids'.

Plebeians - 1836 - 858 pages
...hung over her, little less affected than his sister. CHAPTER V. " The meanest flow'ret of the valc, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common...air, the skies, To him — are opening Paradise." Gray. ANNE'S simple and affecting narrative was soon told, and it called forth the sympathies of her...
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Anecdotes and Annals of the Deaf and Dumb

Charles Edward Herbert Orpen - Deaf - 1836 - 676 pages
...an interest beyond their own. The plough, the loom, the flocks and herds to him have a new value ; ' The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." The endearments of kindred and friendship have almost the charms of novelty to him, and what was little...
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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: With a Memoir of Her Life ...

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Benjamin Lundy - American poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...mortal nature, till it became as a mere shadow, and then she slept. THE COUNTRY. The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the sun, the skies, To him are opening paradise. GRAY. I PITY the man who can glance his eye over...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1836 - 776 pages
...the scenery of nature : ' The simplest note that swells the gale, The meanest flowret of the vale ; The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.' The same principle affects the mind as it expatiates over the broad field of our common humanity, giving...
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Poetical Works: With a Memoir of Her Life and Character

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 1836 - 418 pages
...mortal nature, till it became as a mere shadow, and then she slept. THE COUNTRY. The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the sun, the skies, To him are opening paradise. GHAT. I PITY the man who can glance his eye over...
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Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volume 2

Henry Duncan - 1836 - 434 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 air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." * So says the poet, not with more heauty than correctness. Every enjoyment is enhanced by privation...
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The Christian Psalmist, Or Hymns, Selected and Original: With an ...

James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1837 - 468 pages
...pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the valp, The simplest note that swells* the gale, The common...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Gray's Fragment on Vicuritude, It cannot be questioned that this is genuine poetry ; and the beautiful,...
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