 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,...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 2291821Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1819 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - Ireland - 1819 - 656 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 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. Some village Hampden, that... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - Genius - 1820 - 138 pages
...Shakespeare, Newton, and Milton, and many other celebrated names, would have been unknown. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flow'r is born to bbieh unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." A distinction is, certainly,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 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. Some village Hampden, that,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 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. Some village-Hampden, that,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 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. Some village-Hampden, that... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 542 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 of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village HampJen, that... | |
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