 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 - Pagina 220door William Wirt - 1899 - 260 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pagina’s
...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...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - 1820 - 138 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pagina’s
...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...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pagina’s
...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...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pagina’s
...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,...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood j Some mute,... | |
 | 1821 - 734 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pagina’s
...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...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 542 pagina’s
...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...unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village HampJen, that with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mule,... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pagina’s
...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 unfathom'd caves of ocean bear, Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. "."".«.. »*- > ^ f Some... | |
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