 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,...  The Reliques of Father Prout - Page 22by Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1873 - 578 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1795 - 466 pages
...favourite amusement of drawing. Our elegant poet, GRAY, says, with impressive tenderness, " 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 desert air." Such,... | |
 | Charles Abbot - 1798 - 396 pages
...TWEEDALE, VICAR OF OAKLEY RAYNES IN BEDFORDSHIRE, AND LATE FZLLOW OF N IW COLLEGE, OXFORD. " 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 it's sweetness on the dcsart Air." Gray's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 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 [40]. [40] This... | |
 | 1800 - 460 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 flow'r is born to bjusli unseen, And waste itssweetness on the desert air. 56 Some village-Hampden,... | |
 | Tunis Wortman - 1800 - 312 pages
...most extensive talents, are frequently destined to slumber in eternal obscurity. * » " 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 village... | |
 | 1800 - 322 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 flow'r is born to blush unseen, : '''. And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...or THE REV. MR. ADAM FERGUSSON, MtNISTER AT MOCUV, !M TH F. HIGHLANDS Of fEKTHSKIXe , ' 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.' CRAY'S ELEGY.... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...line, the rising slide ending the second and third, and the falling the last. EXAMPLE. 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.... | |
 | 1803 - 294 pages
...unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And fioze 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 flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village... | |
 | 1806 - 672 pages
...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... | |
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