 | Jesse Appleton - Congregational churches - 1836 - 516 pages
...life, as they indicate the care and agency of a friend, omniscient and almighty. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note, that swells the gale,...the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." So far as you oppose, or neglect religion, you are at warfare with reason, with moral feelings, and... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1836 - 512 pages
...life, as they indicate the care and agency of a friend, omniscient and almighty. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note, that swells the gale,...the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." So far as you oppose, or neglect religion, you are at warfare with reason, with moral feelings, and... | |
 | Author of Old maids - Social classes - 1836 - 210 pages
...whilst Sir John hung over her, little less affected than his sister. CHAPTER XXV. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...air, the skies, To him — are opening Paradise." Gray. Anne's simple and affecting narrative was soon told, and it called forth the sympathies of her... | |
 | Plebeians - 1836 - 858 pages
...hung over her, little less affected than his sister. CHAPTER V. " The meanest flow'ret of the valc, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common...air, the skies, To him — are opening Paradise." Gray. ANNE'S simple and affecting narrative was soon told, and it called forth the sympathies of her... | |
 | Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 1836 - 418 pages
...mortal nature, till it became as a mere shadow, and then she slept. THE COUNTRY. The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the sun, the skies, To him are opening paradise. GHAT. I PITY the man who can glance his eye over... | |
 | Charles Edward Herbert Orpen - Deaf - 1836 - 676 pages
...an interest beyond their own. The plough, the loom, the flocks and herds to him have a new value ; ' The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." The endearments of kindred and friendship have almost the charms of novelty to him, and what was little... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - History - 1967 - 166 pages
...and truth than in the unfinished Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude: The meanest flowret of the vale The simplest note that swells the gale...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Here the touch is almost Wordsworthian, though there is also, in the string of personified abstractions... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...sense becomes an inlet to pure enjoyment; and we shall see that ' The meanest floweret of the dale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To her are opening Paradise.' Ever on the look-out for the excellent, her eye is blind only to errors,... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - Psychology - 1981 - 770 pages
...thorny bed of pain "At length repair his vigor lost, "And breathe, and walk again. "The meanest flowret of the vale, "The simplest note that swells the gale,...the air, the skies, "To him, are opening paradise. "3 Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley to the Year l795, Written by Himself, with a Continuation to the... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - Psychology - 1981 - 770 pages
...pleasure of this sense is heightened by relative circumstances, in the following lines: "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 flowret of the vale, "The simplest note that... | |
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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... 
