 | 1806 - 672 sider
...eager to rescue humble worth from obscurity, conscious of the justice of the poet's remark: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear ; Full many a flovrer is born to blow unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." We consider... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 sider
...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 [40]. [40]... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 sider
...'< 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 u'nfathom'd caves of Ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. Some vilage-Hampden,... | |
 | John Evans - 1804 - 440 sider
...the fine arts. But neither Crew nor Vaughan «fce- recorded on the list of Fame. i**" " 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 desart air." GRAY. In... | |
 | 1813 - 1008 sider
...THOMSON, the • Poet e/" KENLEITH, -with a desultory description of his celebrated PARNASSUS. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear -T Full mnny a flower but springs to blush unseen, And waste its »weelness on the desnrt air. GEAY.... | |
 | Esther Milnes Day, Thomas Lowndes - 1805 - 362 sider
...rose ; Display'da warm, a sympathetic soul, A genial soil, where ev'ry virtue grows. " Full man}' a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ;'* But gems of Sympathy, how seldom seen, Though none with these, in value can compare ! The precious... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 sider
...indefinite article is sometimes placed between the adjectives many, and a singular noun : as, " Full many a gem of purest ray Serene, " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; " Full many ajloiv'r is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desert air.'* In these... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 230 sider
...would go to Wapping and Redriff to make acquaintance with. You remember Mr. Gray's stanza, 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. Yours, dear... | |
 | William Wirt - 1805 - 144 sider
...unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current cf their soul. 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 on the desart air. ••Some... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 sider
...generality, many a curious and many a profound work is first unnoticed, and then lost. 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. But the flowers... | |
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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,... 
