 | Daniel Dewar - 1812 - 372 ページ
...native genius and virtue, as the splendid mansion, or the academic halls of the College. 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. But it is not true that... | |
 | Augusta Amelia Stuart - 1812 - 264 ページ
...frown, would scatter blessings round, and be themselves the charm of refined society ! " Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a fiow'r was born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." • So lost in their beautiful... | |
 | John Galt - 1813 - 472 ページ
...descriptive, that the poetry, I am sure, could not have been otherwise than good. Alas ! " Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear 5 Full many a flower has blown to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." The other... | |
 | Margaret Chalmers - 1813 - 182 ページ
...ice yields to more chilling thaw, Wilt thou the Thulian fleece around thee draw : FOULA. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear. — GRAY. .NATIVES of Foula, oft my Muse Hath fondly wish'd your Isle to see, But chance or fate seems... | |
 | 1755 - 262 ページ
...produce in silence, and nourish in secret, may be well applied the lines of the bard, " 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 :" because, no channel... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1814 - 584 ページ
...metal might have lain in the bowels of the earth undiscovered, for ages yet to come. " 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. Cobalt ores generally... | |
 | 1814 - 310 ページ
...Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich' with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 ページ
...enroll ; 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Morgan - 1814 - 298 ページ
...A few pence." " Many a man," ie mciny men individually taken. " A great many people." " 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." That is full many a gem... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1815 - 332 ページ
...colours to the barren waste ill explains the original turn of Gray, born to blush unseen. 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 in the desert air. The sight of these peaceful... | |
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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,... 
