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... Poems, journals, and essays - Page 125by Thomas Gray - 1884 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1778 - 626 pages
...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,...source whence pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear * crystalline well, And tastes it as it goes. If 'hile far below the madding croud , Hush heudivne... | |
| 1794 - 518 pages
...has tost On the 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...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
...pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again : • H 2 The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...strife, The strength and harmony of life. See the Wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note...source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline * well, And tastes it as it goes. While far below the madding Crowd Rush headlong to the... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...has tost On the 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...source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline * well, And tastes it as it goes. * So Milton accents the word : " On the crystalline sky,... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...has tost On the 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...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...tost " On the thorny bed of pain, " At length repair 1m vigour lost, " And breathe and walk again. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, " The simplest note...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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 pages
...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,...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. * *... | |
| 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
...precious years, is thus introduced at last to a new heaven and a new earth: * The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the 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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