 | 1839 - 894 páginas
...; 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... | |
 | John Liddiard Nicholas - 1817 - 466 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 566 páginas
...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 crowd's... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...a rule, that a quatrain, or stanza, of four lines of alternate verse, may be read with the monotone ending the first line, the rising slide ending the second and third, and the falling the last. The plaintive tone, so essential to the delivery of elegiac composition, greatly diminishes the slides,... | |
 | 1819 - 594 páginas
...labours. But for this the language of the poet had been exemplified in their case : — " 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 fragrance on the desertair." It is only a few, the force... | |
 | 1819 - 550 páginas
...thought with Gray; and was not a little consoled, perhaps, by the repetition of his Verses: " 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!" Mr. Beloe, to avoid this... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - 1819 - 656 páginas
...admirable! Never, in any spot, could be more justly pronounced the poet's lines! — " Full many a gem of purest ray serene , The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear, And many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." Have you not... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...enroll ; Chill penury refiress'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 dn the desert air. Some village Hampden, that,... | |
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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,... 
