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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... "
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...has tost On the stormy 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 paradise. ***** Humble quiet builds her cell Near the source...
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Letters on various subjects. [With a portrait.], Volume 5

James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...localities are no more to me than the swamps of Canada. Cheered and comforted by his smiles : — " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To me are op'ning Paradise." Yours in Jesus, JC LETTER XXXIII. TO THE SAME....
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Gray's Poetical Works: English and Latin : Illustrated

Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...i I fonu. \ \ ii h arl flll Mn|'e, -iiviiLTth and lianiiom of life. Ill i\ luil n|' 'Hi e lueaiu'st floweret of the vale, The. simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skics, To him are opening paradise. Humble quict builds her cell, Near the source...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 148

Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1924 - 1016 pages
...in the Vicissitude Ode give something nowhere to be found in the wide desert of Pope's cleverness : "The meanest floweret of the vale. The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air. the skies, To him are o|>eiiing Paradise." In the enjoyment of mountain scenery Gray...
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Bare Souls

Gamaliel Bradford - 1924 - 376 pages
...in the Vicissitude Ode give something nowhere to be found in the wide desert of Pope's cleverness : "The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." In the enjoyment of mountain scenery Gray curiously...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780)

Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 pages
...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 him are opening Paradise." Against the right of Gray to be considered one...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Essay on Man, Epistle I. POPE. The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. Ode : On the. Pleasure arising from Vicissitude....
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Poems on Several Occasions: Written in the Eighteenth Century

Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 pages
...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 Paradise. THOMAS GRAY. CHRISTMAS DAY. FOR DOLLY. 1750 CHRISTIANS,...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...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, and skies, To him are opening Paradise. Written about 1754-5 ; Mason's Memoir: of Gray,...
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Lyrics from the Old Song Books

Edmondstoune Duncan - 1927 - 658 pages
...has tossed 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 Paradise. Set as a part-song by John E. West, Part-Song...
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