 | Freemasonry - 1795 - 466 pages
...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 not... | |
 | Charles Abbot - Botany - 1798 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 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 its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...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 last... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 460 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 bjusli unseen, And waste itssweetness on the desert air. 56 Some village-Hampden,... | |
 | Tunis Wortman - Freedom of the press - 1800 - 312 pages
...most extensive talents, are frequently destined to slumber in eternal obscurity. * » " 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 desart air. Some village HAMPDEN, that,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 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 [40]. [40] This beautiful... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 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 flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray's Elegy. On Blank Verse.... | |
 | English poetry - 1803 - 294 pages
...unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And fioze 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, that... | |
 | Biography - 1806 - 672 pages
...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 particularly... | |
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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,... 
