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Poetical Works: With a Memoir of Her Life and Character - Page 59
by Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 1836
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 18

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 common sun, the air, the skies, To him, are opening paradise. Humble quiet builds her cell, Near the source...
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The Canary Bird: A Moral Fiction : Interspersed with Poetry

Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1799 - 172 pages
...golden ray ! Cheer up, cheer up, my pretty sweetings! Happy like this be all our meetings ! CHAP. XI. The common air, the sun, the skies, To him are opening paradise. QBE TO VICISSITUDE, BY GRAY AND MASON. JDY the incidents related in the former chapters, our Canary's...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

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, The common sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell, Near the soitrce...
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Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 2

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, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Humble quiet builds her cell Near the course...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

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, The common sun, the air, the skies, To Him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell, Near the source...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 6

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...precious years, is thus introduced at last to a new heaven and a new earth: * The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are op'ning Paradise.' — p. 509. We now take leave of this valuable...
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The British Bibliographer, Volume 3

Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1812 - 502 pages
...not in the adventitious circumstances of birth and fortune, that one human being excels another ! '' The common air, the sun, the skies, To him are opening Paradise!" We are delighted to see reflected the same feelings, the same pleasures from the breasts of our ancestors....
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Childe Alarique: A Poet's Reverie

Robert Pearse Gillies - 1815 - 100 pages
...for example, or Cowper. '*„ (4) St. 7. What bliss in every breath of " common " The meanest floret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air. the skies To him are opening Paradise."— Cray. Perhaps there is not any poet, ancient...
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The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various ..., Volume 2

Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...occasionally resort to the country, ought not t» need such an invitation : — The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To suck are opening Paradise. It is certain, that we no where meet with a...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 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 common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Humble Quiet builds her cell Near the course...
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