Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The deep unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. The London Magazine - Side 4511827Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| William Beloe - 1817 - 402 sider
...attractive in their outward appearance. CHAP. XXXII. T. 189. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear, Full many a flower...unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. CHAP, xxxi ir. p. 194. Miles Romane, .ZEgyptum cave, say the Sybilline books. There are who apply the... | |
| Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 sider
...as a heroic poet. He must have felt with Gray, that Full many a gem of purest, ray, serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear, Full many a flower...born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desart air. It is not therefore surprizing, that MacPherson should take advantage of that laudable,... | |
| Walter Nichols - 1826 - 192 sider
...down to the admiration and improvement of posterity. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower...born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desart air." The Spartan nation, is one that especially excites the curiosity of the inquisitive mind.... | |
| John Martin Frederick Wright - 1827 - 358 sider
...many a gem of purest ray serene, The deep unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert...of the year, " Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long." +- voL. i. B 7 But how these learned quotes were introduced, whether " by... | |
| John Martin Frederick Wright - 1827 - 344 sider
...many a gem of purest ray serene, The deep unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert...shark-like appetite on that particular day, as he also did OR every day of the year, " Man wants but little here below. Nor wants that little long." +- VOL. I.... | |
| John Martin F. Wright - 1827 - 632 sider
...many a gem of purest ray serene, The deep unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." and F Jl, who was evincing a most shark-like appetite on that particular day, as he also did on every day... | |
| 1831 - 616 sider
...himself, when he so felicitously used the metaphor — " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower...unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." It is not, then, surprising that Charles, though entirely of a different cast, should be so firmly... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1833 - 348 sider
...is correct. He brings to my mind the lines of a poet ; Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower...unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air. The impression made by this interview on the mind of Henry was strong, and led him to various reflections.... | |
| James Orange - 1840 - 534 sider
...broken heart, an unpitied stranger in a foreign land. " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower...unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." Being left to themselves, seven of the workmen that went with him returned, bringing each a frame,... | |
| Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1845 - 126 sider
...Sir Charles Grandison. Another sort of trial meets them : the poet says, " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness in the desert air," and many a lively and amiable girl is doomed, by eireumstanees, to pass the prime of her Hie in obseurity,... | |
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