...Vicissitude, we would offer them as at least a possible source and influence for the lines on Science: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...sun, the air, the skies To him are opening Paradise. For Wordsworth, great height and great depth were often interchangeable; consequently it is not surprising...

...vicissitude' 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,...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. In that spring the call of Wessex to Hardy must have been strong. London had become at times a nightmarish...

...than other odes that it does not clearly echo. Gray's lines come near the end of his unfinished poem: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. (Anderson 10:195) As de Selincourt notes, the allusion is clear in Wordsworth's final lines: "To me...

...exhibited were but the natural result of temperate habits and virtuous demeanour. " The simplest flow' ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the earth, the skies, To them were opening Paradise ! Five hundred years after the period of their...

...Ode on the Pleasure Arisingfrom Vicissitude (1775), wo es über einen Kranken im Frühling heißt: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.5" Vgl. den Kommentar in Tennyson (1969), S. 686. Gray / Collins (1977), S. 60. Andererseits...

...Wandsworth Common, where, as he used to tell, standing still he repeated out loud to himself: See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length...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...

...exhibited were but the natural result of temperate habits and virtuous demeanour. " The simplest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the earth, the skies, To them were opening Paradise ! Five hundred years after the period of their...