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,... Curiosities of literature. (Repr. of the 7th ed.). - Sida 481efter Isaac Disraeli - 1824Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| George Butt - 1793 - 254 sidor
...its own disappointments, and tremble to repine when it recollects with the admirable Gray, How many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear, How map/ a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Yon, my noble... | |
| 1795 - 466 sidor
...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, however, was... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 sidor
...boundless waste, where not e'en hops A single step had ventured." And if it be admitted, that " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear," we only heartily wish that this " Flight into Egypt" were numbered amongst the gems of solitude. There... | |
| Charles Abbot - 1798 - 396 sidor
...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 Elegy. PRINTED... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 sidor
...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. Some village Hampden,... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 sidor
...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. TN our... | |
| 1800 - 322 sidor
...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 village-Hampden,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 sidor
...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 beautiful... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - 424 sidor
...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. On Blank... | |
| 1806 - 672 sidor
...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 ourselves... | |
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