CONVALESCENCE. 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... Popular poems, selected by E. Parker - Seite 225von Elizabeth Parker (editor.) - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Pierpont - 1832 - 674 Seiten
...his earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last to a n-«v heaven and a new earth : "The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." The effects of foreign travel have been often remarked, not only in rousing the curiosity of the traveller... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1832 - 334 Seiten
...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 him... | |
| Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 Seiten
...been most admirably suited to sacred themes. We give two of his quotations in his own language:— 1 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, The simple note that swells... | |
| 1832 - 1000 Seiten
...companion, with which he may bold sweet converse. " The meanest flowret of the vale. The simplest note tbat 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 ignorance, when such a person dwelt with delight... | |
| 1851 - 830 Seiten
...of enjoyment, and that which another looks coldly upon, he finds delight in " The meanest flow'rct of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common earth, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise;" and it may be well supposed with what glee... | |
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 Seiten
...common endowments or a common degree of faith, without charity. 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 flowret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the ah", the skies, To... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1833 - 800 Seiten
...from every object, that, in other states of health, might have excited no thought or emotion whatever. On the thorny bed of pain. At length repair his vigour lost. And breathe and walk again 1 The meanest flow'rct of the vale. The simplest note that swella the gale, The common sun, the air,... | |
| 1832 - 858 Seiten
...vulgar amuse& earliest and most precious years, is thus mtrolast, to a new heaven and a nevv earth : " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." DrGAi.n STEWART. POPULAR LITERATURE, NO. I. STKELE. THE TATTLER. T illustrious philanthropist,Chancellor... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 Seiten
...fellows coming drunk from a banquet, loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing * 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 flow'ret of the vale, The simplest... | |
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