 | Bernard Barton - 1824 - 326 pages
...love display'd, Help those — whom THOU alone canst aid ! TO THE MEMORY EMMA FULLER. " 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. I. YES ;... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 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 a.fiower is born to blush unseen, And 'waste its sweetness in the desert air." Pope had said ; " There... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pages
...indefinite article is sometimes placed between the adjective many, and a singular noun : as, " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: " Fui5 wiuny a jlow'r is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desert air." refer... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1988 - 284 pages
...fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. 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 wastes its sweetness on the desert air. These lines may be true... | |
 | John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 568 pages
...may bring forth food out of the earth. ..." Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" says: 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. Oh, what infinite capacity... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...- From Thomas Gray's (171671) "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1742-50, 1751): "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" (lines 53-56). 12.1209... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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...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 inglorious... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...annals of the poor. (I. 29—32) 9 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (1. 36) 10 Full many a P. Hazen flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (1. 53—56) 1 1 Far from... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...reflects on the great careers of which an early death has cheated those entombed before him: Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear Full many a flower is borne to blush unseen. And waste its fragrance on the desert air.12 The fate of talented... | |
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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,... 
