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... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1891822Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...his earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last to a new heaven and a new earth ; " 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." The effects of foreign travel have been often remarked, not only... | |
| Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...wreteh, that long has tust On the thorny hed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And hreathe, and walk again : The meanest flow'ret of the vale,...The simplest note that swells the gale, The common san, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. SUMMER. FRO* hrightening fields of ether fair... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. " See the wretch that long has toat On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour...that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradue." Our author's reputation as a poet, was so high, that on the death... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
| 1832 - 510 pages
...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...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... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1832 - 334 pages
...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 - 1000 pages
...student of nature 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 common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Have you never felt pained with a sense of your own ignorancea... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...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 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... | |
| John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...been most admirably suited to sacred themes. We give two of his quotations in his own language : — ' See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigor !ost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simple note that swells... | |
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