...the ' Psalmist.' The first is taken from Gray's. ' Fragment on Vicissitude :' — ' See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length...the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.' ' It cannot be questioned,' continues Mr. M., 'that this Is genuine poetry ; and the beautiful, but...

...Behind the steps that misery treads, Approaching comfort view : Mark the wretch, that long has toss'd On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. — Gray. THE blackbird strives with emulation sweet, And Echo answers from her close retreat : On...

...harmony of life. 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 floweret...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON. YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the wat'ry glade,...

...his earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced, at last, to a new heaven and a new earth. The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." " With God himself hold converse." B. III. 629. There is an elegant paper in the Tatler (or Spectator),...

...his earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last to a new heaven and a new earth : " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him arc op'ning Paradise." Dmjnlil Siaoart'i Eaay on the Cultivation of Intellectual Habits. Cure of Drunkennesi....

...will start up an agreeabl« companion, with which he may bold sweet converse. •' The meanest flowret of the vale. The simplest note that swells the gale,...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Have you never felt pained with a sense of your own ignorancea when such a person dwelt with delight...

...us of a beautiful stanza in Gray's poem on the Pleasures arising from Vicissitude. " See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length...repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ;" &c. &c. Gray told Mr. Mathias, that M. Gresset's "Epitre « me sccur, sur ma Convalescence," gave...

...depths of the sky, and requires nothing else to fill his mind :— " The meanest flow'ret of the dale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." My own taste for the beauties of the woods and fields is as old as my recollection. I have some curious...

...suited to sacred themes. We give two of his quotations in his own language : — ' See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigor !ost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simple note that swells...

...uniting the charms of poesy with the beauties of holiness : — " See the wretch, that long has toet On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And hreathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale. The simplest note that swells the gale,...