 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...unroll ; Chill Penury repress'd tlieir 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 in the desert air. Some village Hampden, that... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...peace and hope, has not the happiness of a Dr. Smith to pen the story of his death : " 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 in the desert air. " Far from the madding... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 566 pages
...peace and hope, has not the happiness of a Dr. Smith to pen the story of his death : ' " Full many a gem of purest ray serene " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; " Full many a flow'r i& born to blush, unseen, " And waste its sweetness in the desert air. " Far from the madding... | |
 | Great Britain - 1819 - 550 pages
...thought with Gray; and was not a little consoled, perhaps, by the repetition of his Verses: " 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 desert air!" Mr. Beloe, to avoid this... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pages
...labours. But for this the language of the poet had been exemplified in their case : — " 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 fragrance on the desertair." It is only a few, the force... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - Ireland - 1819 - 656 pages
...admirable! Never, in any spot, could be more justly pronounced the poet's lines! — " Full many a gem of purest ray serene , The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear, And many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." Have you not... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - Genius - 1820 - 138 pages
...Shakespeare, Newton, and Milton, and many other celebrated names, would have been unknown. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flow'r is born to bbieh unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." A distinction is, certainly,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...enroll ; Chill penury refiress'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 dn the desert air. Some village Hampden, that,... | |
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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,... 
