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... The Edinburgh Review - Page 4321843Full view - About this book
| History - 1778 - 626 pages
...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 paradise. Humble quiet builds her cell, Near the source whence pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear * crystalline... | |
| Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 pages
...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 opening paradise ! CONTEST BETWEEN THE LIPS AND EYES. ADDRESSED TO Miss R. Then wept the Eyes, and from their springs... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...and walk again : • H 2 The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell, Near the soitrce whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...On the thorny bed of pain, The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell Near the source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...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 opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell Near the source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...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 Paradise. Humble quiet builds her cell Near the course where pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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 Paradise. A third of these ideas I find in his common-place book, on the same page with his argument for the... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...'iuo .Sonnct?, of a ©omsponDcnt ; Imtb Mcmnrf-s on UK ir.inalrD anij ^Jlr.isnrcs of Imagination. *, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." GRAY. jiag. 28, 1815. IN the iXth Number of THE SYLVAN WANDERER I have introduced two Sonnets of the... | |
| Robert Pearse Gillies - 1815 - 100 pages
...every breath of " common " The meanest floret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air. the skies To him are opening Paradise."— Cray. Perhaps there is not any poet, ancient or modern, who can furnish so many exquisite lines within... | |
| Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pages
...heaven and a new earth. " The meanest flowret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." PROFESSOR STEWART. ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE. The Nightshade strews, to work him ill. DEATION. HAUGHTY... | |
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