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 - Página 191857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Saʻdī - 1823 - 488 páginas
...intelligent the " foliage of the grove displays, in every leaf, a " volume of the Creator's works." -" The meanest floweret of the vale, " The simplest note that swells the gale, " The common sun, the air, and skies, " To him are opening paradise ! " " On recovering from his .reverie, that holy " man forthwith... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - 1824 - 224 páginas
...Vicissitude, observes of a person under such circumstances, with infinite beauty as well as truth ; — ' The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...sun, the air, the skies To Him are opening Paradise I* A SKETCH. In the fulness of heart which the contemplation of a setting sun, diffusing its hues of... | |
| John Jebb - 1824 - 418 páginas
...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 air, the skies, To him, are opening paradise." This captivating passage, is at least equally descriptive of the change accomplished by the spirit... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 páginas
...of health, might have excited no thought or emotion whatever. " See 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 flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 638 páginas
...feeling which upou thN occasion suggested their recollection : " See the wretch, that long has toss'cl On the thorny bed of pain, . At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again : ENONTEKIS. - * steeped in alcohol. It was seventeen feet.iti height, and nearly fifty in circumference;... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 630 páginas
...feeling which upon this occasion suggested their recollection : " See the wretch, that long has toss'd On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, aud walk again : " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common... | |
| James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 páginas
...most likely to have originated hymns, uniting the charms of poesy with the l>eauties of holiness: " See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Gray's Fragment on Vicissitude. It cannot be questioned that this is genuine poetry ; and the beautiful,... | |
| 1827 - 496 páginas
...our lives, all that moralists have said, and all that poets have sung, of the blessings of health. 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 of the vale, 1 The simplest note that... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...Chastised by sabler tints of woe ; And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, 50 Ver. 43. Behind the steps that Misery treads.] A resemblance has been here pointed out to some lines... | |
| Going - 1825 - 662 páginas
...every object around him, md he quickly learned to find delight in the amplest objects of creation : The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise ; ibr he saw the trace of his Father's hand upon Bat his cheerfulness bore a very different chafacter... | |
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