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 Recreations of a Country Parson - Page 109by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
| History - 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,...the air, the skies, To him, are opening paradise. Humble quiet builds her cell, Near the source whence pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear * crystalline... | |
| Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 pages
...Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe ; And, blended, form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of me. See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed...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,...sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell, Near the soitrce whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| 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...sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell Near the source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| 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 - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...Chastis'd 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...sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell Near the source whence Pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...scents the swelling breeze, Or cottage chimney smoking thro' the trees. WHITE. RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS. SEE the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed...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
...harmony of life. " See the wretch that long has tost " On the thorny bed of pain, " At length repair 1m vigour lost, " And breathe and walk again. " The meanest...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 - English poetry - 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,...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Humble quiet builds her cell Near the course where pleasure flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 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,...sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell, Near the source whence Pleasure flows; She eyes the clear * crystalline... | |
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