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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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Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library, Volume 2

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...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 76

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...
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Poetry for children, selected by L. Aikin

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...
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Poetical Works

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...
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Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 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...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. * *...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...of life. See the W retch, 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 common-place book, on the same page with his argument for the...
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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 - 1811 - 622 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...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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The New Pocket Cyclopaedia: Or, Elements Or Useful Knowledge, Methodically ...

Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 pages
...years, is thus introduced a last to a new heaven and a new earth: ' The meanest floweret of the Tale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are op'niig Paradise.' Select Books on Taste. Gerard and Knight on Taste. Stewart, in his Philosophical...
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The New Pocket Cyclopædia: Or, Elements of Useful Knowledge, Methodically ...

John Millard - 1813 - 704 pages
...introduced at last to a new heaven and a new earth; ' The meanest floweret of the Tale, The simplest uote that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, • . To him are op'ning Paradise.' » Select Books on Taste. Gerard and Kuight on Taste. Stewart, in his Philosophical...
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