 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,...  Letters of William Cowper - Página 21por William Cowper - 1912 - 428 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1811 - 394 páginas
...talent, however destitute of external recommendation. How often would lie-say — " Full many ag^em 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." Secondly. We see what progress... | |
 | Kenneth Macleay (M.D.) - 1811 - 100 páginas
...REMARKS RELATIVE TO THAT ISLAND. K, MACLEAY, MD TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, THE MERMAID, A POEM. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear." EDINBURGH: CRAY. Printed by James Clarke, Cawgate, FOB THOMAS BRYCE & CO. NO. 13, INFIRMARY-STREET;... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 páginas
...before I knew them ; and am apt to think I should find every place disagreeable, that had not an (Jim in belonging to it. This incident convinces me of the...Mr. Gray's stanza : " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The deep unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a rose is born to blush unseen, And wane... | |
 | Augusta Amelia Stuart - 1812 - 264 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 páginas
...unroll ; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the so 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 desart air. Some village-Hampden, that... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1812 - 372 páginas
...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... | |
 | Margaret Chalmers - 1813 - 182 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Galt - 1813 - 472 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1814 - 584 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1755 - 262 páginas
...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... | |
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