| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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