Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,... The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series - Seite 449von Marcius Willson - 1862 - 538 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1795 - 466 Seiten
...favourite amusement of drawing. Our elegant poet, GRAY, says, with impressive tenderness, " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; " Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Such, however, was not... | |
| Charles Abbot - 1798 - 396 Seiten
...TWEEDALE, VICAR OF OAKLEY RAYNES IN BEDFORDSHIRE, AND LATE FZLLOW OF N IW COLLEGE, OXFORD. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene " The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear : " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, " And waste it's sweetness on the dcsart Air." Gray's Elegy. PRINTED... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 Seiten
...unroll ; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that,... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 Seiten
...or THE REV. MR. ADAM FERGUSSON, MtNISTER AT MOCUV, !M TH F. HIGHLANDS Of fEKTHSKIXe , ' Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.' CRAY'S ELEGY. TN our last... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 Seiten
...unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air [40]. [40] This beautiful... | |
| 1800 - 322 Seiten
...unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, :•.- .." • ." The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;; Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, : '''. And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden,... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 Seiten
...line, the rising slide ending the second and third, and the falling the last. EXAMPLE. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray's Elegy. On Blank Verse.... | |
| 1806 - 672 Seiten
...eager to rescue humble worth from obscurity, conscious of the justice of the poet's remark: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear ; Full many a flovrer is born to blow unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." We consider ourselves particularly... | |
| John Evans - 1804 - 440 Seiten
...the fine arts. But neither Crew nor Vaughan «fce- recorded on the list of Fame. i**" " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desart air." GRAY. In the corner of... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 Seiten
...'< Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. •Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark u'nfathom'd caves of Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. Some vilage-Hampden, that... | |
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