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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... "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 15
1847
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The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891: Compiled Largely from ...

Florence Emily Hardy - 1928 - 388 pages
...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. ' f. Immediately on Hardy's recovery the question arose of whereabouts he...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 81

1847 - 606 pages
...constituted student in Nature's school, every sense becomes an inlet to pure enjoyment; and we shall see that ' The meanest floweret of the dale, The simplest...such a tour to the iron frame of man, is borne with unrepining patience by a woman — and this too, as she gracefully says, ' an invalid who had only...
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Aspects of Eighteenth Century Nature Poetry

Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 pages
...than in the unfinished Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude: 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. Here the touch is almost Wordsworthian, though there is also, in the string...
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Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind

Benjamin Rush - 1981 - 770 pages
...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 common sun, the air, the skies, "To him, are opening paradise. "3 Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley to the Year l795, Written by Himself,...
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A Mind For Ever Voyaging: Wordsworth at Work Portraying Newton and Science

W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 pages
...at least a possible source and influence for the lines on Science: 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. For Wordsworth, great height and great depth were often interchangeable;...
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Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life

J. Gibson - 1996 - 226 pages
...about the invalid who at length is able to '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. In that spring the call of Wessex to Hardy must have been strong. London...
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Romantic Poems, Poets, and Narrators

Joseph C. Sitterson - 2000 - 228 pages
...clearly echo. Gray's lines come near the end of his unfinished poem: 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. (Anderson 10:195) As de Selincourt notes, the allusion is clear in Wordsworth's...
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy - 2007 - 532 pages
...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. Immediately on Hardy's recovery the question arose of whereabouts he and...
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Der Landschaftsgarten als Lebensmodell: zur Symbolik der "Gartenrevolution ...

Ana-Stanca Tabarasi - 2007 - 516 pages
...Vicissitude (1775), wo es über einen Kranken im Frühling heißt: 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.5" Vgl. den Kommentar in Tennyson (1969), S. 686. Gray / Collins (1977), S....
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