 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1844 - 504 pages
...STEAM-ENGINE, BY THE ARTIZAN CLUB. — — « Knowledge to their eyei her ample page, Rich In the spoil» of Time, did ne'er unroll. Chill penury repressed their noble rage. And froze the genial current of the loul." How mach more just the poet's estimate of the effects of penury, than that of... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : 13. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. M. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...XI. r Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Some heart, once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre. XII. But Knowledge, to their eyes, her ample page, Rich with the spoils of Time, did ne'er unroll ;... | |
 | Lennox and Addington (Ont.) - 1909 - 490 pages
...many children of whom it might be said : — "Rut knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll, Chill penury repressed their noble rage. And froze the genial current of the soul." The names of three teachers have come down to us from the time of the early settlement... | |
 | Oscar Mandel - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 332 pages
...pathetically shrunk in the ghetto or the squalid village: But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Instead of one Spinoza, the world might have celebrated twenty; the sciences might... | |
 | 1897 - 672 pages
...Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire." " Hands that the rod of Empire might have swayed." " Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul." " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." " Some mute, inglorious... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their...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... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...lines of the Elegy to which Barbauld alludes: But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of their soul. (49-52) Of these lines one must observe the absence of a specific referent;... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, 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; 50 Chill Penury repressed their noble rage. And... | |
 | Legislators - 1996 - 160 pages
...laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre; But Knowledge...Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to... | |
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Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre. 
