 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...Penseroso, v. 142. The celebrated stanza in Gray's Elegy seems partly to be borrowed. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many zjlffuier is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." Pope had said ; " There... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 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."j The two similies in this... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...the more refined, without offending their taste. March 1, 1822. THt LONELY WIDOW, •< 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." To form a correct estimate... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1824 - 326 pages
...love display'd, Help those — whom THOU alone canst aid ! TO THE MEMORY EMMA FULLER. " 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. I. YES ;... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 pages
...faithful men to go to all nations, publishing the glad tidings of salvation. LETTER III. 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. London, nth March... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...Penseroso, v. 142. The celebrated stanza in Gray's Elegy seems partly to be borrowed. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a.fiower is born to blush unseen, And 'waste its sweetness in the desert air." Pope had said ; " There... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pages
...indefinite article is sometimes placed between the adjective many, and a singular noun : as, " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: " Fui5 wiuny a jlow'r is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desert air." refer... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 848 pages
...as the present inhabitants of Canada. The beautiful lines of Gray, . •• /a> -r--\\ Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear, &c. are, for aught I know, as applicable to Canada as to any other part of the world, whether you regard... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. •Full many a ter to receive Perfection from the sun's more potent ray. These ; Pall many a flower is born to blush unseen, . -Л :..! waste its sweetness on the desert air. •... | |
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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,... 
