 But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er 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...  A First[-fifth] Reader - Página 328por Jenny H. Stickney - 1892Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1795 - 466 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little Tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1800 - 322 páginas
...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...'''. And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; . ' Some mute... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...'< 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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