 | John Liddiard Nicholas - Maori (New Zealand people) - 1817 - 466 pages
...while conscious of its own powers, in ignoble obscurity ! How justly does the poet say, " 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!" Had the genius which Shunghi... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...; and to be out of that fashion, is to be out of name, out of fame, and out of notice, Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some lights are seen only through the dim haze of prejudice, while others are magnified by a thousand reflectors... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...have sway'd, Or wak'd to extasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...page, Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er enroll ; Chill penury refiress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a...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,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er enroll ; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many agetn of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom d caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
