 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...wrote sound philosophy, as well as beautiful poetry, in the following fine stanzas : — Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom'd caves...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...unrol ; Chill penury repress'd tixeir noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom'd caves...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast. The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute,... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...with this cut off, 6rm manu, the whole of the executioner t nose! 98t UNPATRONIZED MERIT. 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. To the Editor nf... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 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 flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray's Elegy. On Blank Verse.... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...unrol; 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. N Page 13. " True to his... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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 it's sweetness on the desert air,. Some village Hampden,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...Penseroso, v. 142. The celebrated stanza in Gray's Elegy seems partly to be borrowed. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many zjlffuier is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." Pope had said ; " There... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...the more refined, without offending their taste. March 1, 1822. THt LONELY WIDOW, •< 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." To form a correct estimate... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 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."j The two similies in this... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 pages
...faithful men to go to all nations, publishing the glad tidings of salvation. LETTER III. 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. London, nth March... | |
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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,... 
