 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
 | 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... | |
 | Bernard Barton - English poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...love display'd, Help those—whom THOU alone canst aid ! TO THE MEMORY OF 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." I. GRAY'S Elegy. YES ;... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...third, and the falling the last. EXAMPLE. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfalhom.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. The structure and punctuation of blank... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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...many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,. And waste it's sweetness on the desert air,. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant... | |
 | 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...Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray's Elegy. On Blank Verse. THE structure and punctuation of blank... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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