 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1826 - 476 pages
...springing into new life and freedom. You all know, Gentlemen, what the poet says — ' 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.' 22 BAKING... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1826 - 474 pages
...blush unseen.) 1 1 M. Michaud a depuis rectifié ces deux vers de la manière suivante : 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. Nous avions... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 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 Sower is bom to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."i The two similies... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1826 - 482 pages
...ornement d'une rive inconnue , > La rose du désert rougit sans être vue, etc. TOME xxi. 13 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. Nous avions... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 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).... | |
 | John R. Rice - 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... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 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 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (1. 53—56)... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1993 - 296 pages
...reflects on the great careers of which an early death has cheated those entombed before him: Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear Full many a flower is borne to blush unseen. And waste its fragrance on the desert air.12 The fate... | |
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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,... 
