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" 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 Viceregal Speeches and Addresses, Lectures and Poems, of the Late Earl ... - Page ciii
by George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 483 pages
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On the Life, Writings, and Genius of Akenside:: With Some Account of His Friends

Charles Bucke - Poets, English - 1832 - 328 pages
...beautiful stanza in Gray's poem on the Pleasures arising from Vicissitude. " See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ;" &c. &c. Gray told Mr. Mathias, that M. Gresset's "Epitre « me sccur, sur ma Convalescence," gave...
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The Christian Psalmist: Or, Hymns Selected and Original. With an ...

James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1832 - 484 pages
...uniting the charms of poesy with the beauties of holiness : — " See the wretch, that long has toet On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And hreathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale. The simplest note that swells the gale,...
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Literary and Religious Sketches

John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...— ' 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 the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.'...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3

1833 - 444 pages
...his earliest and most precious years, is thus mtroduced at last, to a new heaven and a new earth : " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are openinp Paradise." DUGALD STEWART. POPULAR II I Kit VTl l!i , NO. I. STKELE. THE TATTLER. THAT illustrious...
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Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind

Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1833 - 800 pages
...thorny bed of pain, At length lepair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again 1 The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies. To him are opeaing paradise ."£ There is yet another principle which modifies the primary laws of suggestion...
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A Grammar of Elocution

Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...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 air, the skies, To...
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The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 2

1832 - 858 pages
...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 air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." DDCALD STEWART. POPULAR LITERATURE, NO. I. STEELE. THE TATTLER. THAT illustrious philanthropist,Chancellor...
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The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in ...

1834 - 498 pages
...me now !— WB BOTANY. NON-ANIMATED NATURE. ' THE meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest sound that swells the gale, The common sun — the air — the skies — To him are opening Paradise." — GRAY. BOTANY is that part of Natural History which treats of the nature and uses of Plants and...
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Flora and Thalia; or, Gems of flowers and poetry, by a lady

Flora (goddess.) - 1835 - 314 pages
...know ; 'Tis man alone that joy descries, With forward and reverted eyes. See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. GRAY. APRIL. Now infant April joins the Spring, And views the wat'ry sky ; As youngling linnet triet...
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Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal ...

Dionysius Lardner - Authors, Italian - 1835 - 632 pages
...invalid's delight, when mere existence, void ' suffering, is enjoyment. " See the wreteh, who long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his...The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the earth, the skies, To him are opeuing paradise.". So sang Gray, and so felt Tasso for a few...
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