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,... A New and old evangelical magazine - Page 471846Full view - About this book
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1815 - 316 pages
...original de Gray, la fleur qui est née pour rougir sans être vue (is born to blush unseen.) 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 ita sweetuess in the désert air. Nous avions essayé autrefois... | |
| John George Phillimore - Digesta - 1815 - 332 pages
...colours to the barren waste ill explains the original turn of Gray, born to blush unseen. 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. The sight of these peaceful... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1815 - 318 pages
...original de Gray, la fleur qui est née pour rougir sans étte vue (is born to blush unseen.) many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear t Full many a flower is boni to blush unseen, And waste ils sweetueas in the desert air. Nous avions... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...colours to the barren waste ill explains the original turn of Gray*'fora to blush unseen, Full many a. gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear. Full many aflovv'r is bora to blush unseen And waste its sweetness in the desert air. The sight of these peaceful... | |
| Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...penury reprefs'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the foul. Full many a gem, of pureft ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blufh unfeen, And wafte its fweetnefs on the defert air. Some village Hampden, I... | |
| England - 1839 - 894 pages
...; Chill penury repressed 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 desort air.' The two similies in this... | |
| William Wirt - Virginia - 1829 - 250 pages
..."Chill penury repress 'd their noble rage, " And froze the genial cuirent of their 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. "Some village flamnden,... | |
| 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... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...unroll ; Chill Penury repress'd tlieir 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 in the desert air. Some village Hampden, that... | |
| 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... | |
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