 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 Letters of the British Spy - Page 105by William Wirt - 1805 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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, to be made between... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...time did ne'er 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
...time did ne'er 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
...time, did ne'er 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
...time did ne'er 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...time did ne'er 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,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1821 - 734 pages
...but one instance from many. The following well-known lines of the first-mentioned Poet " 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," are evidently taken from... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...time, did ne'er 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...Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. "."".«.. »*- > ^ f Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...Time did ne'er 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,... | |
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