 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 էջ
...unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. •Full many a ter to receive Perfection from the sun's more potent ray. These ; Pall many a flower is born to blush unseen, . -Л :..! waste its sweetness on the desert air. •... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 էջ
...indefinite article is sometimes placed between the adjective many, and a singular noun : as, " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: " Fui5 wiuny a jlow'r is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desert air." refer... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 էջ
...friends, few of them will be found ready to render him efficacious assistance, and thus — 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 dcsart air. * What then is happiness... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 էջ
...- 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... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 284 էջ
...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... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 568 էջ
...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 էջ
...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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 էջ
...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... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1993 - 296 էջ
...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 of talented... | |
 | Sir Robert Wilson - 2003 - 320 էջ
...Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow Dedicated to the memory of a Durham miner Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is bom to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray Contents List of Illustrations... | |
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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,... 
