 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...sway'd, Or wak'd to eestacy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with ile they keep watch, or nightly rounding ; Pall many a flower is born to blush unseen, . -Л :..! waste its sweetness on the desert air. •... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page. Rich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury...many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd ca^es of Ocean bear : Fu'l many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...unroll; Chili Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soûl. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves...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... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 568 pages
...may bring forth food out of the earth. ..." Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" says: 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. Oh, what infinite capacity... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1988 - 284 pages
...fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. 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 wastes its sweetness on the desert air. These lines may be true... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...- From Thomas Gray's (171671) "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1742-50, 1751): "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" (lines 53-56). 12.1209... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...celestial fire" — and so is that of city dwellers: 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. This stanza, which praises the city indirectly by describing how impoverished... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy 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... | |
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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. 
