 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 North British Review - Sayfa 191857Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 sayfa
...yesterday." And Gray, who was a great admirer of Bishop Taylor, says almost in the same words ; — " See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length regain his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again. The meanest floweret of the vale. The simplest... | |
 | 1830 - 508 sayfa
...uniting the charms of poetry with the beauties of holiness. Take first the following lines of Gray, " See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pam, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 510 sayfa
...by the editor of the ' Psalmist.' The first is taken from Gray's. ' Fragment on Vicissitude :' — ' See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed...air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.' ' It cannot be questioned,' continues Mr. M., 'that this Is genuine poetry ; and the beautiful, but not... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 sayfa
...Behind the steps that misery treads, Approaching comfort view : Mark the wretch, that long has toss'd On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sayfa
...harmony of life. See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigor lost And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret...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,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1832 - 334 sayfa
...These lines remind us of a beautiful stanza in Gray's poem on the Pleasures arising from Vicissitude. " See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed...repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ;" &c. &c. Gray told Mr. Mathias, that M. Gresset's "Epitre a me sceur, sur ma Convalescence" gave... | |
 | 1832 - 406 sayfa
...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.... | |
 | 1832 - 1000 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 sayfa
...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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